Writing imagined diasporas : South Asian women reshaping North American identity /
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Author / Creator: | Kuortti, Joel. |
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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 |
ISBN: | 9781847183422 1847183425 9781443810173 1443810177 1282413473 9781282413474 9786612413476 6612413476 |
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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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