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Reading Together Reading Apart Identity Belonging And South Asian American Community Tamara Bhalla

Name: Reading Together Reading Apart Identity Belonging And South Asian American Community Tamara Bhalla
SKU: BELL-46192068
Price: 31.00 USD
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Reading Together Reading Apart Identity Belonging And South Asian American Community Tamara Bhalla instant download after payment.

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 3.89 MB

Pages: 224

Author: Tamara Bhalla

ISBN: 9780252081958, 0252081951

Language: English

Year: 2016

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Reading Together Reading Apart Identity Belonging And South Asian American Community Tamara Bhalla by Tamara Bhalla 9780252081958, 0252081951 instant download after payment.

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.