作品情報

南アジア系アメリカ人の経験とコミュニティをマッピングするエッセイ集。移民や文化的アイデンティティの多様性を提示する。

書籍情報

出版社

Temple Univ Pr

発売日

1996-11-01

ページ数

242ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.24 x 3.81 x 22.23 cm

ISBN-13

9781889876009

ISBN-10

1889876003

価格

2799 JPY

カテゴリ

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).

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