02555nam a2200289   4500020001800000082002500018100003100043245008800074260006800162300001300230440003800243504006600281520134500347650006801692650006201760650005201822650004501874650004501919650004601964650004102010650003202051650003202083650003002115650002902145650003202174856005902206  a978113827091600a820.992870954bHUS-W0 aHussain, Yasmin ,eAuthor.10aWriting diaspora :bSouth Asian women, culture, and ethnicity /cby Yasmin Hussain.  aAldershot, Hants, England ;aBurlington, VT :bAshgate,cc2005.  a148 p. ; 0aStudies in migration and diaspora  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index.  aIssues 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. 0aEnglish literaturexSouth Asian authorsxHistory and criticism. 0aEnglish literaturexWomen authorsxHistory and criticism. 0aSouth AsianszGreat BritainxIntellectual life. 0aMotion pictureszGreat BritainxHistory. 0aWomenzGreat BritainxIntellectual life. 0aEmigration and immigration in literature. 0aWomen and literaturezGreat Britain. 0aSouth Asians in literature. 0aSouth Asians in mass media. 0aImmigrants in literature. 0aEthnicity in literature. 0aCulture in motion pictures.41uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005008912.html