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Reading Together, Reading Apart

- Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community
Af: Tamara Bhalla Engelsk Paperback

Reading Together, Reading Apart

- Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community
Af: Tamara Bhalla Engelsk Paperback
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Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation--and serves as an expression of a sense of belonging--within the South Asian diaspora in the United States. Tamara Bhalla blends a case study with literary and textual analysis to illuminate this phenomenon. Her fascinating investigation considers institutions from literary reviews to the marketplace and social media and other technologies, as well as traditional forms of literary discussion like book clubs and academic criticism. Throughout, Bhalla questions how her subjects' circumstances, shared race and class, and desires limit the values they ascribe to reading. She also examines how ideology circulating around a body of literature or a self-selected, imagined community of readers shapes reading itself and influences South Asians' powerful, if contradictory, relationship with ideals of cultural authenticity.
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Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation--and serves as an expression of a sense of belonging--within the South Asian diaspora in the United States. Tamara Bhalla blends a case study with literary and textual analysis to illuminate this phenomenon. Her fascinating investigation considers institutions from literary reviews to the marketplace and social media and other technologies, as well as traditional forms of literary discussion like book clubs and academic criticism. Throughout, Bhalla questions how her subjects' circumstances, shared race and class, and desires limit the values they ascribe to reading. She also examines how ideology circulating around a body of literature or a self-selected, imagined community of readers shapes reading itself and influences South Asians' powerful, if contradictory, relationship with ideals of cultural authenticity.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252081958
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0252081951
Kategori: India
Udg. Dato: 17 okt 2016
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato: 17 okt 2016
Forfatter(e): Tamara Bhalla
Forfatter(e) Tamara Bhalla

Kategori India

ISBN-13 9780252081958

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 17 okt 2016

Oplagsdato 17 okt 2016

Forlag University of Illinois Press