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Writing Imagined Diasporas - South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Writing Imagined Diasporas - South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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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 diasporas challenge
"national" discourses.Diaspora brings to mind various contested
ideas and images. It can be a positive site for the affirmation of
an identity, or, conversely, a negative site of fears of losing
that identity. Diaspora signals an engagement with a matrix of
diversity: of cultures, languages, histories, people, places,
times. What distinguishes diaspora from some other types of travel
is its centripetal dimension. It does not only mean that people are
dispersed in different places but that they congregate in other
places, forming new communities. In such gatherings, new
allegiances are forged that supplant earlier commitments. New
imagined communities arise that not simply substitute old ones but
form a hybrid space in-between various identifications. This book
looks into the ways in which diasporic Indian literature handles
these issues. In the context of diaspora there is an imaginative
construction of collective identity in the making, That a given
diaspora comes to be seen as a community is the result of a process
of imagining, at the same time creating new marginalities,
hybridities and dependencies, resulting in multiple
marginalizations, hyphenizations and demands for allegiance.The
study concentrates on eleven contemporary women writers from the
United States and Canada who write on South Asian diasporic
experiences. The writers are Ramabai Espinet, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amulya
Malladi, Sujata Massey, Bharati Mukherjee, Uma Parameswaran, Kirin
Narayan, Anita Rau Badami, Robbie Clipper Sethi, Shauna Singh
Baldwin, and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan.
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