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BL
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| Record Number
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585929
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b415148
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| Main Entry
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Mani, Bakirathi
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| Title & Author
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Aspiring to home : : South Asians in America /\ Bakirathi Mani
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, California :: Stanford University Press,, 2012
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| Series Statement
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Asian America
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| Page. NO
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xii, 311 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780804777995 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0804777993 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780804778008 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0804778000 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: becoming South Asian -- Postcolonial locations: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of maladies and The namesake -- So far from home: documenting immigrant lives in Knowing her place, Calcutta calling, and Bangla east side -- Beauty queens: gender, ethnicity, and transnational modernities at Miss India USA -- The art of multiculturalism: diasporadics, desh pardesh, and Artwallah -- Somewhere you've never been before?: the American romance of Bombay dreams
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American literature-- South Asian American authors-- History and criticism
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South Asian Americans in literature
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Immigrants in literature
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South Asian Americans-- Ethnic identity
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South Asian American arts
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| Dewey Classification
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305.891/4073
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| LC Classification
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PS153.S68M36 2012
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