Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (Asian American Writers' Workshop)
An anthology that maps South Asian American experience through fiction, essays, poetry, and photography.
Work Information
An anthology that maps South Asian American experience through fiction, essays, poetry, and photography.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Temple Univ Pr
- Published
- 1996-11-01
- Pages
- 242 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 3.81 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781889876009
- ISBN-10
- 1889876003
- Price
- 2799 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Politics & Government/International & World Politics/Asian
This book comes at a critical time in the history of South Asians in North America. As the number of South Asian immigrants increases in the United States and Canada, a familiar tension has been the immigrant conflict between home as a physical site in North America and home as an emotional concept tied to the ancestral country, and the second generation's questioning of both notions. This anthology critically explores this familiar tension and the concept of \u0022home.\u0022 It focuses on the transformative experiences that lead individuals to declare or reject new forms of belonging in North America. Setting up \u0022home\u0022 may require contesting existing roles, inventing hybrid identities, or seeking social and political change. The anthology challenges undifferentiated, stereotypical images of South Asians in North America, portraying instead the subtleties of their varied, sometimes invisible experiences. It includes fiction, poetry, essays, and photography.
Sunaina Maira is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who is doing her dissertation research on the ethnic identity development of second-generation Indian Americans. Rajini Srikanth teaches literature and Women's Studies at Tufts University and Wellesley College and is co-editor of Closing the Gap: South Asian Americans in Asian America (Temple).