Full Description
A variety of immigrant narratives probe the dynamic process of South Asian Americanization
Contents
Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction 1. Reading Assimilation and the American Dream as Transnational Narratives 2. They Came on Buses: "GuyaneseOpportunities" as a Contemporary Americanization Program 3. "Stretched over dark femaleness": Three South Asian Novels of Americanization 4. "How to be Indian": Independent Films about Second Generation South Asian Americans Conclusion