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National (un)belonging : Bengali American women on imagining and contesting culture and identity / by Roksana Badruddoja.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Badruddoja, Roksana, author.
- Series:
- Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 222.
- Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 222
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Bengali--United States--Social conditions.
- Women, Bengali.
- Women, Bengali--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- Children of immigrants--United States.
- Children of immigrants.
- Bengali Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Bengali Americans.
- Bengali Americans--Race identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 172 pages).
- Other Title:
- Bengali American women on imagining and contesting culture and identity
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- Contents:
- Foreword : telling America's whole story
- The Cheshire Cat : vexing identities
- Impossible subjects : (re)collecting South Asian American Im/migration
- From research to process : social research, feminist scholarship, and women's subjectivities
- Racial and ethnic imaginary : projects of (re)negotiation
- Patrolling the cultural fences : community place-making
- Territories of the self : language, holidays, religion, food, and clothing
- Project of "home" : "where are you from?"
- Cultural autonomy : boundaries of marriage
- Tropologies of queerness : sexuality, family, and culture
- Consolidation of the American nation-state : South Asian diasporic fiction
- Contesting the unitary self : the ABCD conundrum and sites of intervention.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 11, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Badruddoja, Roksana. National (un)belonging
- ISBN:
- 9789004514577
- 9004514570
- Publisher Number:
- 40031259686
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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