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Kar, Rosie Naresh.

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What Can Brown Do For You? Citizenship and Desire: The South Asian Diasporic Body.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	What Can Brown Do For You? Citizenship and Desire: The South Asian Diasporic Body./
Author:	Kar, Rosie Naresh.
Description:	262 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-03A(E).
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3602113
ISBN:	9781303539121

What Can Brown Do For You? Citizenship and Desire: The South Asian Diasporic Body.
Kar, Rosie Naresh.

What Can Brown Do For You? Citizenship and Desire: The South Asian Diasporic Body. - 262 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013.

This dissertation engages with historical and analytical queries on the corporeal raised by a recent surge of cultural productions whose central figures are South Asian Americans, and their tethering to discourses around citizenship in the United States. Sutured in image cultures, at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality, these figurations manifest themselves in novels, short stories, political pamphlets, television programs, beauty pageants, films, and legal cases. This project focuses on the constructions of paradigmatic brown bodies as they appear in historical, legal, and popular representations, from the early twentieth century through the twenty-first century. It examines the ways in which a racialized sexuality is constitutive of these bodies, linking them to specific ethnic communities. It unpacks the anxieties and tensions that are inscribed on brown bodies; they are not new figures, but eruptions and refigurations of past spectacles that haunt the American imaginary. It presents a theory of civilized productivity by examining the ways that power, privilege, sexuality, pleasure, and gender are coded onto this population, and the connections those codes make with discourses around citizenship and nationalism.

ISBN: 9781303539121Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

What Can Brown Do For You? Citizenship and Desire: The South Asian Diasporic Body.
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