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Fashioning Diaspora - Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture (Paperback)
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Fashioning Diaspora - Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture (Paperback)
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In her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy
carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and
fashion shaped South Asian American cultural identities and
racialized belonging from the 1990s through the first decade of the
twenty-first century. She observes how diasporic subjects engage
with and respond to various encounters with Indian beauty and
fashion. One of the first books to consider beauty and fashion as a
point of entry into an examination of South Asian diasporic public
cultures, Fashioning Diaspora examines a range of literature,
visual art, and live performance. Through careful analyses of
novels by Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, young adult
literature, performance art by Shailja Patel, beauty and adornment
practices, as well as objects of popular culture including an
Indian American fashion doll, Reddy challenges fashion and beauty
as a set of dematerialized, overly commodified cultural practices.
She argues instead that beauty and fashion structure South Asian
Americans' uneven access to social mobility, capital, and
citizenship, and she demonstrates their varying capacities to
produce social attachments across national, class, racial, gender,
and generational divides.
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