Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index
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