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American literature --- Asian Americans --- Chinese Americans --- Japanese Americans --- Asian American authors. --- Chinese American authors. --- Japanese American authors. --- Literary collections.

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What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means through which immigrants of varying regional, religious, and linguistic backgrounds experience what it means to belong, Bakirathi Mani shows how ethnicity is produced through the relationship between domestic racial formations and global movements of class and capital. Aspiring to Home focuses on popular cultural works created by first- and second-generation South Asians from 1999–2009, including those by author Jhumpa Lahiri and filmmaker Mira Nair, as well as public events such as the Miss India U.S.A. pageant and the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Analyzing these diverse productions through an interdisciplinary framework, Mani weaves literary readings with ethnography to unravel the constraints of form and genre that shape how we read diasporic popular culture.

American literature -- South Asian American authors -- History and criticism. --- South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity. --- South Asian Americans in literature. --- American literature --- South Asian Americans in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- South Asian Americans --- South Asian American arts --- Arts, South Asian American --- Ethnic arts --- South Asians --- Ethnology --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism --- South Asian American authors --- Ethnic identity --- Littérature américaine --- Américains d'origine asiatique --- Émigration et immigration --- Auteurs d'origine asiatique --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Identité ethnique --- Immigrants in literature. --- South Asian American arts. --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic identity. --- Philosophical anthropology --- Sociology of minorities --- Thematology --- Sociology of literature --- History of civilization --- immigration --- ethnicity --- South Asia --- United States of America

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Sociology of minorities --- American literature --- Asian Americans --- Indians in literature --- Mexican Americans --- Minorities in literature --- Littérature américaine --- Américains d'origine asiatique --- Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature --- Minorités dans la littérature --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism --- Indian authors --- Mexican American authors --- Minority authors --- Intellectual life --- Ecrivains américains d'origine asiatique --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique --- Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine --- Auteurs issus des minorités --- Vie intellectuelle --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Literatures --- Littératures --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- Asian Americans in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Minorities in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Indians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Littérature américaine --- Américains d'origine asiatique --- Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature --- Minorités dans la littérature --- Ecrivains américains d'origine asiatique --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique --- Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine --- Auteurs issus des minorités --- Littératures --- American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism. --- American literature - Mexican American authors - History and criticism. --- American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism. --- American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism. --- Mexican Americans - Intellectual life. --- Asian Americans - Intellectual life. --- United States - Literatures - History and criticism. --- Litterature americaine --- Auteurs mexicains --- Auteurs indiens --- Minorites culturelles --- Etats-unis --- Indians of North America

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This innovative contribution to understanding the promise and contradictions of contemporary postcolonial culture applies a wide array of theoretical tools to a large body of literature. The author compares the work of established Indian writers including Bharati Mukherjee, Meena Alexander, Sara Suleri, and Sunetra Gupta to new writings by such Afro-Italian immigrant women as Ermina dell'Oro, Maria Abbebù Viarengo, Ribka Sibhatu, and Sirad Hassan. Sandra Ponzanesi's analysis highlights a set of dissymmetrical relationships that are set in the context of different imperial, linguistic, and market policies. By dealing with issues of representation linked to postcolonial literary genres, to gender and ethnicity questions, and to new cartographies of diaspora, this book imbues the postcolonial debate with a new élan.

Migration. Refugees --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Africa --- India: East --- Indic literature (English) --- American literature --- Italian literature --- East Indian American women --- Immigrants' writings --- East Indians --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Africans --- East Indian Americans in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- South Asians in literature. --- Women and literature. --- Literature --- Ethnology --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Writings of immigrants --- Women, East Indian American --- Women --- Ottovolante (Group of writers) --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Indo-English literature --- Indic literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- South Asian American authors --- South Asian authors --- Intellectual life. --- Littérature de l'Inde de langue anglaise --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Écrits d'immigrés --- Femmes et littérature --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs d'origine asiatique