商品簡介
The author examines how diasporic individuals engage with aspects of Indian beauty, femininity, and fashion and how these encounters create practices of citizenship and belonging, looking at the impact of transnational flows of Indian beauty and fashion on South Asian American cultural identities and belonging from the 1990s to the end of the first decade of the 20th century. She discusses a diverse array of topics: beauty as a form of physical attractiveness that represents the failed promises of national and transnational belonging for diasporic Indian women, postcolonial Indian men, and white American women, through Bharati Mukherjee's novel Jasmine; how Indian beauty's socializing capacities expand beyond the marginalized female diasporic subject and the reach of the nation in Jhumpa Lahiri's short fiction collection Interpreter of Maladies; Indian beauty in Pallavi Dixit's short story “Pageant,” the Indian American Girl doll (Neela Sen), and Kavita Daswani's young adult chick lit novel Indie Girl; and the use of the bindi and sari in performance and visual art by Swati Khurana, Prema Murthy, and Migritude by Shailja Patel. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Vanita Reddy is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University.
