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South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies

South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies

Pandey, Iswari

Paperback

Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture, Book 163

General ReferenceAsian American Studies

ISBN10: 0822963787
ISBN13: 9780822963783
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Nov 13 2015
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding at sites as varied as a Hindu school, a Hindu women's reading group, Muslim men's and women's discussion groups formed soon after 9/11, and cross-cultural presentations by these immigrants to the host communities and law enforcement agencies. Through more than seventy interviews, he reveals the migratory nature of literacies and the community work required to make these practices meaningful.

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