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Transnational (un)belongings: The formation of identities in South Asian American autobiographies.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transnational (un)belongings: The formation of identities in South Asian American autobiographies./
Author:	Arora, Anupama.
Description:	274 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3382.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3148042
ISBN:	0496079182

Transnational (un)belongings: The formation of identities in South Asian American autobiographies.
Arora, Anupama.

Transnational (un)belongings: The formation of identities in South Asian American autobiographies. - 274 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3382.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2004.

In this dissertation, I examine autobiographies of first-generation South Asian Americans, from the early twentieth century until the present, by locating these narratives at the cusp of multiethnic U.S., specifically Asian American studies, and postcolonial studies. I argue that first-generation South Asian Americans are a transnational diaspora located within the distinct racial formations of the U.S. who conduct strategic maneuvers to survive in the new home which inevitably produces degrees and varieties of (un) belongings. I explore the straddled positioning of South Asian Americans as "ethnics" and "diasporics" to underscore transnational subjectivities and multiple geographies. Informed by the work of theorists Arjun Appadurai, William Safran, and others, I employ transnationalism as a critical methodology that calls attention to the "social fields" and networks centered in ideologies, migrations and practices across national borders. The work of U.S. race studies theorists Howard Winant and Michael Omi, Karen Brodkin, and David Palumbo-Liu is also invaluable to my project.

ISBN: 0496079182Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Transnational (un)belongings: The formation of identities in South Asian American autobiographies.
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520 $a Chapters I and II examine the life narratives of pre-1965 South Asian immigrants---Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Dalip Singh Saund and Ved Mehta---to establish the importance of reading early narratives against a historicized transnationalism. My discussion counters "presentist" immigration paradigms that valorize recently published texts and ignore older texts and immigration histories. Chapter III is focused on ways in which gender complicates the production of ethnicity in the memoirs of Sara Suleri and Meena Alexander, both of which manifest transnational feminist practices by specifically engaging women's place or dis-placement in postcolonial nation-states as well as the ways in which these women are differently scripted as "women of color" in the U.S. Chapter IV concludes my study by arguing that the complex imagining and rendering of ethnicity, community, kinship, and belonging in Abraham Verghese's memoir makes it an exemplary text to think through the contemporary transnational moment.
520 $a This study traces the century-old presence of South Asians in the U.S. that makes visible the ways in which these sub-continentals have interacted with and been inserted into the American landscape. Every chapter illuminates how first-generation South Asian Americans live complicated lives as transnationals by simultaneously engaging different locations---the historical and socio-cultural spaces of the present and an enduring connection and self-definition in relation to other homeland(s).
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