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""I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now.""So explains Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu in this touching, introspective, and insightful examination of mixed race Asian American experiences. The son of an Irish American father and Japanese

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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