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A variety of immigrant narratives probe the dynamic process of South Asian Americanization

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"How to Be South Asian in America analyzes narratives of nation to demonstrate their influence on contemporary possibilities for assimilation in the United States. What gives jain's book a fresh profile is its structure: she has chosen to analyze film, novels, and social history-in particular, the migration of Guyanese to Schenectady. This tripartite organization offers a more complete account than most other books on this topic, and the examples are all strong and well-argued." -John Hawley, Santa Clara University, and author of Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction

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Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction 1. Reading Assimilation and the American Dream as Transnational Narratives 2. They Came on Buses: "GuyaneseOpportunities" as a Contemporary Americanization Program 3. "Stretched over dark femaleness": Three South Asian Novels of Americanization 4. "How to be Indian": Independent Films about Second Generation South Asian Americans Conclusion

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/03/2011
      ISBN13: 9781439903032, 978-1439903032
      ISBN10: 1439903034
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A variety of immigrant narratives probe the dynamic process of South Asian Americanization

      Trade Review
      "How to Be South Asian in America analyzes narratives of nation to demonstrate their influence on contemporary possibilities for assimilation in the United States. What gives jain's book a fresh profile is its structure: she has chosen to analyze film, novels, and social history-in particular, the migration of Guyanese to Schenectady. This tripartite organization offers a more complete account than most other books on this topic, and the examples are all strong and well-argued." -John Hawley, Santa Clara University, and author of Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction 1. Reading Assimilation and the American Dream as Transnational Narratives 2. They Came on Buses: "GuyaneseOpportunities" as a Contemporary Americanization Program 3. "Stretched over dark femaleness": Three South Asian Novels of Americanization 4. "How to be Indian": Independent Films about Second Generation South Asian Americans Conclusion

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