Title Writing imagined diasporas : South Asian women reshaping North American identity / by Joel Kuortti.

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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-190) and index.
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 ...
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Subject	American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Women authors.
	American literature -- South Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- South Asian American authors.
	Women in literature.
	Women in literature.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	Ethnicity in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Kuortti, Joel. Writing imagined diasporas. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007 9781847183422 (DLC) 2008396165 (OCoLC)173239377
ISBN	9781847183422
	1847183425
	9781443810173
	1443810177