Introduction : becoming South Asian -- Postcolonial locations : Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of maladies and The namesake -- So far from home : documenting immigrant lives in Knowing her place, Calcutta calling, and Bangla east side -- Beauty queens : gender, ethnicity, and transnational modernities at Miss India U.S.A. -- The art of multiculturalism : diasporadics, desh pardesh, and Artwallah -- Somewhere you've never been before? : the American romance of Bombay dreams.
Introduction : becoming South Asian -- Postcolonial locations : Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of maladies and The namesake -- So far from home : documenting immigrant lives in Knowing her place, Calcutta calling, and Bangla east side -- Beauty queens : gender, ethnicity, and transnational modernities at Miss India U.S.A. -- The art of multiculturalism : diasporadics, desh pardesh, and Artwallah -- Somewhere you've never been before? : the American romance of Bombay dreams.