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Writing Diaspora - South Asian Women, Culture and Ethnicity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Writing Diaspora - South Asian Women, Culture and Ethnicity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Migration and Diaspora
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Issues of cultural hybridity, diaspora and identity are central to
debates on ethnicity and race and, over the past decade, have
framed many theoretical debates in sociology, cultural studies and
literary studies. However, these ideas are all too often considered
at a purely theoretical level. In this book Yasmin Hussain uses
these ideas to explore cultural production by British South Asian
women including Monica Ali, Meera Syal and Gurinder Chadha. Hussain
provides a sociological analysis of the contexts and experiences of
the British South Asian community, discussing key concerns that
emerge within the work of this new generation of women writers and
which express more widespread debates within the community. In
particular these authors address issues of individual and group
identity and the ways in which these are affected by ethnicity and
gender. Hussain argues that in exploring the different dimensions
of their cultural heritage, the authors she surveys have created
changes within the meaning of the diasporic identity, articulating
a challenge to the notion of 'Asianness' as a homogenous and simple
category. In her examination of the process through which a
hybridized diasporic culture has come into being, she offers an
important contribution to some of the key questions in recent
sociological and cultural theory.
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