Writing imagined diasporas : South Asian women reshaping North American identity /

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Author / Creator:Kuortti, Joel.
Imprint:Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
Description:1 online resource (x, 193 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283819
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ISBN:9781847183422
1847183425
9781443810173
1443810177
1282413473
9781282413474
9786612413476
6612413476
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-190) and index.
English.
Summary:Joel Kuortti's Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity is a study of diasporic South Asian women writers. It argues that the diasporic South Asians are not merely assimilating to their host cultures but they are also actively reshaping them through their own, new voices bringing new definitions of identity. As diaspora does not emerge as a mere sociological fact but it becomes what it is because it is said to be what it is, the writings of imagined dias ...
Other form:Print version: Kuortti, Joel. Writing imagined diasporas. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007 9781847183422

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