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Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community
Tamara Bhalla
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Description for Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community
Hardback. Series: Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; DSA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Asian American Experience
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040481
SKU
V9780252040481
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About Tamara Bhalla
Tamara Bhalla is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Reviews for Reading Together, Reading Apart: Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community
"Bhalla ultimately elucidates an affirmative potentiality from which elite tradition (in this case, literary production) encounters quotidian praxis and produces new forms of collective belonging."
Journal of Asian American Studies "Bhalla's nuanced, sensitive analysis illuminates how nonacademic readers grapple with issues of authenticity, class, and gender as they engage with transnational South Asian literature. This rigorously-researched book significantly enhances discussions of ... Read more
Journal of Asian American Studies "Bhalla's nuanced, sensitive analysis illuminates how nonacademic readers grapple with issues of authenticity, class, and gender as they engage with transnational South Asian literature. This rigorously-researched book significantly enhances discussions of ... Read more