Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives From the Eighteenth Century to Monica Ali /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Pereira-Ares, Noemí (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Literature .; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Oriental literature.; British literature.; Fiction.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Asian Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, the book takes the reader on a journey from the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. 'Our Eastern costume created a sensation'
• 3. The 'Sartorially Undesirable "Other"'
• 4. 'It was stylish and "in" to be eastern'?
• 5. 'Chanel designing catwalk Indian suits'
• 6. 'She had her hijab pulled off'
• 7. A Sartorial Afterword.