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Author_Yasmin Hussain
Bangladeshi Community
Bangladeshi Diaspora
Bhangra Music
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Black British Feminism
Black Feminism
Black Feminists
Black Women
Black Women's Writing
Black Women’s Writing
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Brick Lane
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British Asian feminism
British Bangladeshi Community
British South Asian
British South Asian Communities
British South Asian Woman
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Chadha's Cinema
Chadha’s Cinema
communities
Contemporary Society
cultural hybridity studies
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ethnic identity formation
feminism
gendered migration
Gurinder Chadha
intersectionality in British South Asian writing
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minority women's literature
qualitative sociological analysis
Shalwaar Kameez
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South Asian
South Asian Audiences
South Asian Community
South Asian Diaspora
South Asian Ethnic Minorities
South Asian Families
South Asian Women
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754641131
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Aug 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Issues of cultural hybridity, diaspora and identity are central to debates on ethnicity and race and, over the past decade, have framed many theoretical debates in sociology, cultural studies and literary studies. However, these ideas are all too often considered at a purely theoretical level. In this book Yasmin Hussain uses these ideas to explore cultural production by British South Asian women including Monica Ali, Meera Syal and Gurinder Chadha. Hussain provides a sociological analysis of the contexts and experiences of the British South Asian community, discussing key concerns that emerge within the work of this new generation of women writers and which express more widespread debates within the community. In particular these authors address issues of individual and group identity and the ways in which these are affected by ethnicity and gender. Hussain argues that in exploring the different dimensions of their cultural heritage, the authors she surveys have created changes within the meaning of the diasporic identity, articulating a challenge to the notion of 'Asianness' as a homogenous and simple category. In her examination of the process through which a hybridized diasporic culture has come into being, she offers an important contribution to some of the key questions in recent sociological and cultural theory.
Yasmin Hussain is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK.
