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Writing Imagined Diasporas : South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity
ISBN: 9781443810173
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

Joel Kuortti's Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity is a study of diasporic South Asian women writers. It argues that the diasporic South Asians are not merely assimilating to their host cultures but they are also actively reshaping them through their own, new voices bringing new definitions of identity. As diaspora does not emerge as a mere sociological fact but it becomes what it is because it is said to be what it is, the writings of imagined dias..."