Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community - Couverture rigide

Bhalla, Tamara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252040481 ISBN 13 : 9780252040481

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tamara Bhalla is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252040481
• ISBN 13: 9780252040481
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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