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Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture de Vanita Reddy

Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture

Autor Vanita Reddy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2016

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781439911556
ISBN-10: 143991155X
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția American Literatures Initiative

Recenzii

“Fashioning Diaspora is essential reading for scholarship on beauty. Reddy introduces a shift the field has long needed, as she reads beauty as embodied practice alongside cultural signifier; as produced within networks of social power and yet complicating them with its own disruptive logic. This is an analysis both critical and appreciative of its topic, and in its nuance a fine example of ‘why the humanities matter’ for making sense of neoliberal, transnational, material realities.”—erin Khuê Ninh, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature

“Fashioning Diaspora is an extraordinary intervention into the joint fields of Asian American studies and feminist and queer theory. Reddy makes important contributions, and her book is distinguished by fresh, original readings of a diverse archive of South Asian American public culture. This innovative constellation of texts not only enables us to see how the archive constitutes a historical source for narratives of South Asian migration but also produces a state of feeling: what she argues is the feeling of beauty.”—Bakirathi Mani, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College, and author of Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America

“Vanita Reddy has now made it very difficult to think about the South Asian diaspora without paying attention to the subjects, objects, discourses, and practices of beauty that animate it. Moving seamlessly from discussions of the ‘exceptional beauty’ of literary heroines like Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine to the transformation of Delhi and Mumbai into new fashion capitals, Reddy’s compelling readings and vast archive of ‘beautiful forms’ leave us much wiser about how aesthetic desires and demands have shaped South Asians’ everyday practices of belonging.”—Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

Notă biografică

Vanita Reddy is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University.

Cuprins

Introduction: Beauty Matters     
                                                                                                                     
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 Fashion and Beauty
4 Oppositional Economies of Fashion in Experimental Feminist Media
5 Histories of the Cloth and Sartorial Sentiment in Shailja Patel’s Migritude
 
Epilogue: Fashioning Diasporic Futures