Vanita Reddy

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781439911556
• ISBN-10: 143991155X
• Artikelnr.: 44559593

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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