How to be South Asian in America : narratives of ambivalence and belonging /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jain, Anupama, 1972-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Americanization. South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity. South Asian Americans > Cultural assimilation. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Reading assimilation and the American dream as transnational narratives
They came on buses: "Guyanese Opportunities" as a contemporary Americanization program
"Stretched over dark femaleness": three South Asian novels of Americanization
"How to be Indian": independent films about second-generation South Asian Americans
Ambivalent Americanization and South Asian narratives of belonging in diaspora.