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National (un)belonging : Bengali American women on imagining and contesting culture and identity / by Roksana Badruddoja.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Badruddoja, Roksana, author.
Contributor:
E.J. Brill (Firm)
Rosengarten Family Fund.
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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