Fashioning diaspora : beauty, femininity, and South Asian American culture / Vanita Reddy

Author: Reddy, Vanita, 1977-
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.
Copyright Date: ©2016
Physical Description: xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Asian American history and culture

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Excepting Beauty and Negotiating Nationhood in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- 2.Prosthetic Femininity, Flexible Citizenship, and Feminist Cosmopolitics in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri -- 3.Fashioning Diasporic Citizens in Literary Youth Cultures of Beauty and Fashion -- 4.Oppositional Economies of Fashion in Experimental Feminist Visual Media -- 5.Histories of the Cloth and Sartorial Sentiment in Shailja Patel's Migritude.

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9781439911549 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1439911541 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781439911556 (paper ; alk. paper)
143991155X (paper ; alk. paper)
9781439911563 (e-book)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.

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