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White and Indian? Intermarriage and narrative authority in South Asian American fiction

Date

Authors

Black, Shameem

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

How does intermarriage affect a storyteller? In this essay, I seek to examine literary narratives of South Asian family formation that take late twentieth-century intermarriages-particularly between Indian men and white American women-as their central gov

Keywords

Keywords: cultural identity; diaspora; family structure; marriage; racial identity; twentieth century; India; United States family; Multiracial; Robbie Clipper Sethi; short story; South Asian diaspora

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74474

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

South Asia-Journal of South Asia Studies

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1080/00856401.2012.715572

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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