South Asian women, culture, and ethnicity Hussain, Yasmin creator Author. text Aldershot, Hants, England Burlington, VT Ashgate c2005 monographic 148 p. ; 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. by Yasmin Hussain. Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index. English literature South Asian authors History and criticism English literature Women authors History and criticism South Asians Great Britain Intellectual life Motion pictures Great Britain History Women Great Britain Intellectual life Emigration and immigration in literature Women and literature Great Britain South Asians in literature South Asians in mass media Immigrants in literature Ethnicity in literature Culture in motion pictures 820.992870954 HUS-W 9781138270916 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005008912.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005008912.html