TY  - BOOK
AU  - Izabella Kimak
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-2254
SN  - 9783653034585
TI  - Bicultural Bodies
T2  - A Study of South Asian American Women’s Literature
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03458-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047740
N2  - The body, which is a frequently explored topic in immigrant literature, has for some reason been rather neglected by literary scholars. This book attempts to address this imbalance by paying critical attention to representations of female sexuality and the female body in South Asian American women’s fiction. The key premise of this study is that the prevalent popular and critical attitude to this body of literature as operating according to binary opposites (America-Asia, freedom-repression) is somewhat reductive. The book tries to probe deeper into the literary texts under study to show what mechanisms the writers employ to challenge the culturally sanctioned role of the female body as the carrier of cultural tradition.
KW  - South Asian American literature, immigrant literature, sexuality, cultural tradition, :, Indian Peninsula
LA  - English
ER  -