Between the lines: South Asians and postcoloniality PDF
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SOUTH ASIANS AND POSTCOLONIALITY In the series AsianAmericanHistoryand Culture, edited bySucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, and MichaelOmi AlsointheAsianAmericanHistoryandCultureseries: SuchengChan, ed., EntryDenied:ExclusionandtheChineseCommunityinAmerica, 1882-1943, 1991 GaryY.Okihiro,CaneFires:TheAnti-JapaneseMovementinHawaii, 1865-1945, 1991 YenLeEspiritu,AsianAmericanPanethnicity:BridgingInstitutionsandIdentities, 1992 KarenIsaksenLeonard,MakingEthnicChoices:California'sPunjabiMexicanAmericans, 1992 ShirleyGeok-linLimandAmyLing,eds.,ReadingtheLiteraturesofAsianAmerica, 1992 RenqiuYu, ToSaveChina,ToSaveOurselves:TheChineseHandLaundryAllianceofNewYork, 1992 VelinaHasuHouston,ed.,ThePoliticsofLife:FourPlaysbyAsianAmericanWomen, 1993 WilliamWei, TheAsianAmericanMovement, 1993 SuchengChan,ed.,HmongMeansFree:LifeinLaosandAmerica, 1994 TimothyP.Fong,TheFirstSuburbanChinatown:TheRemakingofMontereyPark,California, 1994 ChrisFriday, OrganizingAsianAmericanLabor: ThePacificCoastCanned-SalmonIndustry, 1870- 1942, 1994 PaulOng,EdnaBonacich,andLucieCheng,eds., TheNewAsianImmigrationinLosAngeles andGlobalRestructuring, 1994 CarlosBulosan,TheCryandtheDedication,editedandwithanintroductionbyE.SanJuan, Jr., 1995 YenLeEspiritu,FilipinoAmericanLives, 1995 Vicente1.Rafael,ed.,DiscrepantHistories:TranslocalEssaysonFilipinOCultures, 1995 E.SanJuan,Jr.,ed.,OnBecomingFilipino:SelectedWritingsofCarlosBulosan, 1995 E.SanJuan,Jr., ThePhilippineTemptation:DialecticsofPhilippines-U.S.LiteraryRelations, 1996 SOUTH ASIANS AND POSTCOLONIALITY EDITED BY Deepika Bahri AND Mary Vasudeva iii TempleUniversityPress Philadelphia TempleUniversityPress, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright© 1996byTempleUniversity (exceptChapter6, copyright© M. G. Vassanji). Allrightsreserved Published 1996 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica § ThepaperusedinthisbookmeetstherequirementsoftheAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciences-PermanenceofPaperfor PrintedLibraryMaterials, ANSIZ39.48-1984 TextdesignbyWillBoehm LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Betweenthelines: SouthAsiansandpostcoloniality / editedby DeepikaBahriandMaryVasudeva. p. em.- (AsianAmericanhistoryandculture) Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN 1-56639-467-8 (cloth: alk. paper).- ISBN 1-56639-468-6 (pbk. :alk. paper) 1.SouthAsianAmericans. 2.SouthAsianAmericans-Ethnic identity. 3. SouthAsians--Canada. 4.SouthAsians--Canada-Ethnic identity. 5.Orientalliterature (English)-Historyandcriticism. 6.Decolonizationinliterature. 7. Cultureconflictinliterature. 8. Ethnicityinliterature. 9.SouthAsia--Civilization-20th century. 10.SouthAsia--Colonialinfluence. I. Bahri, Deepika, 1962- II. Vasudeva, Mary, 1966- III. Series: Asian Americanhistoryandcultureseries. E184.S69B48 1996 973'.04914-dc20 95-52972 mtIDtII.' _ Acknowledgments ix Introduction DeepikaBahriandMaryVasudeva PART I INTERVIEWS 2 ObservingOurselvesamongOthers InterviewwithMeenaAlexander DeepikaBahriandMaryVasudeva 3S 3 PedagogicalAlternatives:IssuesinPostcolonialStudies InterviewwithGauriViswanathan DeepikaBahriandMaryVasudeva 54 4 TransnationalityandMulticulturalistIdeology InterviewwithGayatriChakravortySpivak DeepikaBahriandMaryVasudeva 64 PART II COMMENTARIES 5 AfricanAmericansandtheNewImmigrants AmritjitSingh 93 6 LifeattheMargins:IntheThickofMultiplicity M. G.Vassanji 111 vi Contents 7 Mullahs,Sex,andBureaucrats: Pakistan'sConfrontationswiththeModernWorld SohailInayatullah 121 8 ComingtoTermswiththe"Postcolonial" DeepikaBahri 137 PART III STUDIESINTHEMEDIAANDPOPULARCULTURE 9 AnExplosionofDifference:TheMarginsof PerceptioninSammyandRosieGetLaid RanitaChatterjee 167 10 EmigrantsTwiceDisplaced:Race,Color,and IdentityinMiraNair'sMississippiMasala BinitaMehta 185 I I FromRitualDramatoNationalPrimeTime: Mahabharata, India'sTelevisualObsession SanjoyMajumder 204 12 Television,Politics,andtheEpicHeroine: CaseStudy,Sita MahasvetaBarna 216 PART IV LITERARYCRITICISM 13 ReplacingtheColonialGaze: GenderasStrategyinSalmanRushdie'sFiction SukeshiKamra 237 14 StyleIs (Not) theWoman:SaraSuleri'sMeatlessDays SamirDayal 250 IS RedefiningthePostcolonialFemaleSelf: WomeninAnitaDesai'sClearLightofDay PushpaNaiduParekh 270 vii Contents 16 "LuminousBrahminChildrenMustBeSaved": ImperialistIdeologies,"Postcolonial"Historiesin BharatiMukherjee'sTheTiger'sDaughter IndraniMitra 284 17 TheTroubledPast:LiteratureofSeveringandthe Viewer/ViewedDialectic HumaIbrahim 298 PARTY EXPERIMENTAtCRITIQUES 18 JaneAusteninMeerut,India AmitavaKumar 315 19 BorderCrossings:RetrievalandErasure oftheSelfasOther ShantanuDuttaAhmed 337 20 ISeetheGlassasHalfFull UmaParameswaran 351 AbouttheContributors 369 We thankallthosewho helpedin the compilationofthis anthol ogy, ourcontributors,families, friends, andcollaboratorsatTempleUniversity Press: DavidPalumbo-Liu,JanetFrancendese, PatriciaSterling, andJoanVidal. Forinstitutionalsupport,wethankBowlingGreenStateUniversity,GeorgiaIn stitute ofTechnology, and Emory University. We were fortunate to have had the supportandencouragementofmany; mostuseful, perhaps, were theirin sightfulcriticismandinput. Weespeciallythankourspouses,JosephPetraglia BahriandVivekVasudeva, for theirencouragement, flexibility, andpatienceas weworkedonthisproject.
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