Writing diaspora : South Asian women, culture, and ethnicity / by Yasmin Hussain

Author: Yasmin Hussain
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
Copyright Date: ©2005
Physical Description: 148 pages ; 25 cm.

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Studies in migration

Contents

Introduction -- Identity and gender across generations of British South Asians -- Black British feminism and the birth of South Asian women's writing -- The new woman in South Asian and diasporic literature -- Bhaji on the beach and Bend it like Beckham : Gurinder Chadha and the 'desification' of British cinema -- Brick lane : gender and migration -- Childhood in Anita and me -- Conclusion.

Subject(s)

English literature—South Asian authors—History and criticism
English literature—Women authors—History and criticism
South Asians—Great Britain—Intellectual life
Motion pictures—Great Britain—History
Women—Great Britain—Intellectual life
Emigration and immigration in literature
Women and literature—Great Britain
South Asians in literature
South Asians in mass media
Immigrants in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Southeast Asia—In literature

ISBN

0754641139 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-141) and index.

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