Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian by Vanita Reddy
By Vanita Reddy
One of the 1st books to contemplate good looks and model as some extent of access into an exam of South Asian diasporic public cultures, Fashioning Diaspora examines a variety of literature, visible artwork, and concert. via cautious analyses of novels through Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, younger grownup literature, functionality paintings through Shailja Patel, in addition to gadgets of pop culture together with an Indian American type doll, and sweetness and adornment practices, Reddy demanding situations type and sweetness as a collection of dematerialized, overly commodified cultural practices. She argues in its place that attractiveness and type constitution South Asian american citizens’ asymmetric entry to social mobility, capital, and citizenship, and demonstrates their various capacities to supply social attachments throughout nationwide, category, racial, gender, and generational divides.
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