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Between the lines : South A...
This ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by ""South Asian,"" ""diaspora,"" ""postcolonial,"" and ""Asian American,"" the contributors attempt to unpack these terms. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live ""between the lines""-on and between borders-they reinstate questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance. As South Asians living in the United States and Canada, each to some degree must reflect on the i
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monografia Rebiun36525596 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36525596 m o d | cr#-n--------- 951213s1996 pau ob 000 0 eng d 1-4399-0108-2 1-282-04705-1 9786612047053 0-585-38248-4 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng n-us--- n-cn--- az----- Between the lines South Asians and postcoloniality edited by Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva Philadelphia, PA Temple University Press 1996 Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA Temple University Press 1 online resource (386 p.) 1 online resource (386 p.) Asian American history and culture Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; PART I INTERVIEWS; 2 Observing Ourselves among Others Interview with Meena Alexander; 3 Pedagogical Alternatives: Issues in Postcolonial Studies Interview with Gauri Viswanathan; 4 Transnationality and Multiculturalist Ideology Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; PART II COMMENTARIES; 5 African Americans and the New Immigrants; 6 Life at the Margins: In the Thick of Multiplicity; 7 Mullahs, Sex, and Bureaucrats: Pakistan's Confrontations with the Modern World; 8 Coming to Terms with the "Postcolonial" PART III STUDIES IN THE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE9 An Explosion of Difference: The Margins of Perception in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid; 10 Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala; 11 From Ritual Drama to National Prime Time: Mahabharata, India's Televisual Obsession; 12 Television, Politics, and the Epic Heroine: Case Study, Sita; PART IV LITERARY CRITICISM; 13 Replacing the Colonial Gaze: Gender as Strategy hi Salman Rushdie's Fiction; 14 Style Is (Not) the Woman: Sara Suleri's Meatless Days 15 Redefining the Postcolonial Female Self: Women in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day16 "Luminous Brahmin Children Must Be Saved": Imperialist Ideologies, "Postcolonial" Histories in Bharati Mukherjee's The Tig; 17 The Troubled Past: Literature of Severing and the Viewer/Viewed Dialectic; PART V EXPERIMENTAL CRITIQUES; 18 Jane Austen in Meerut, India; 19 Border Crossings: Retrieval and Erasure of the Self as Other; 20 I See the Glass as Half Full; About the Contributors This ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by ""South Asian,"" ""diaspora,"" ""postcolonial,"" and ""Asian American,"" the contributors attempt to unpack these terms. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live ""between the lines""-on and between borders-they reinstate questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance. As South Asians living in the United States and Canada, each to some degree must reflect on the i English Bahri, Deepika Wolpé, Sholeh Wolpé, Sholeh 1962-) Vasudeva, Mary 1966-) 1-56639-467-8 1-56639-468-6 Asian American history and culture