National (un)belonging : Bengali American women on imagining and contesting culture and identity / by Roksana Badruddoja.

Author
Badruddoja, Roksana [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Description
xiii, 172 ; 25 cm.

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    "In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity, Roksana Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary "second-generation" Bengali American women. Badruddoja engages in a yearlong feminist ethnographic study with a nationwide sample of 25 women in the U.S. to poignantly explore perceptions about daily social and cultural practices. Exploring the conceptual and theoretical perspectives of the social, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of transnational migrations, Badruddoja interrogates assimilation to depict the messy nature of diasporic travels and the resulting complexities of diasporic identities. Badruddoja demonstrates racialized identities are often part of a constellation of loyalties that are multiple, contradictory, constantly shifting, and overlapping"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword : telling America's whole story
    • The Cheshire Cat : vexing identities
    • Impossible subjects : (re)collecting South Asian American Im/migration
    • From research to process : social research, feminist scholarship, and women's subjectivities
    • Racial and ethnic imaginary : projects of (re)negotiation
    • Patrolling the cultural fences : community place-making
    • Territories of the self : language, holidays, religion, food, and clothing
    • Project of "home" : "where are you from?"
    • Cultural autonomy : boundaries of marriage
    • Tropologies of queerness : sexuality, family, and culture
    • Consolidation of the American nation-state : South Asian diasporic fiction
    • Contesting the unitary self : the ABCD conundrum and sites of intervention.
    Other title(s)
    • National unbelonging
    • Bengali American women on imagining and contesting culture and identity
    ISBN
    • 9789004512870
    • 900451287X (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2022022271
    OCLC
    1303080505
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