How to be South Asian in America : narratives of ambivalence and belonging by Anupama JainCall Number: Sawyer 4th floor E184.S69 J35 2011 (also available as eBrary digital book)
"Jain (Univ. of Pittsburgh) examines the work of representative authors from South Asia at various stages of their post-migration...The majority of these South Asians aspired to remain authentically Indian, yet also to belong to a larger American collective. Jain shows how the literary and cinematic works she studies represent these aspirations to attain the "American dream," the ways of achieving them, and often of failing to do so; she also explores the agency available to fictional representatives of this community and the profound ambivalence many of them felt, be they Hindu, Muslim, Parsee, etc." (CHOICE magazine review)