The Cultural Closet: The South Asian American Experience of Keeping Romantic Relationships Secret

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-31
Author(s):  
Gagan S. Khera ◽  
Muninder K. Ahluwalia
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The South ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
American Experience

Staging Diaspora: South Asian American Theater Today

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 831-854
Author(s):  
ASHIS SENGUPTA
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The Body ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian America ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
American Theater ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Wide Range

This essay attempts to show how contemporary South Asian American theater deals with a wide range of South Asian American experience and in so doing has created a “new aesthetic” within American theater. The South Asian American experience is a diaspora experience, but in the contemporary wider sense of the term. The plays under study are about the old and new home, about people assimilating into the mainstream or navigating between two cultures or even negotiating a transnational identity. They deal with contested ideas of nation, nationality and allegiance, and also explore the South Asian female body in the new culture. Central to my study are the works of emerging South Asian American playwrights. I have carefully chosen a full-length play by each of them, two only in the case of short plays, and paired them under separate rubrics in such a way as to argue how they represent the diverse yet connected, changing yet pervasive, historical, cultural and psychological tropes of the South Asian American diaspora. The essay, however, does not claim that the body of work chosen for the current essay – or the rubrics, for that matter – fully expresses “South Asian America” or its theater.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himanee Gupta-Carlson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
South Asians ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Race And Religion

The introduction introduces the central themes of the book and highlights its significance. It opens by exploring the wedding of the (a Hindu female of Indian ancestry) to a white, Christian male and places racial and religious tensions embedded in that event within the larger context of race and religion as organizing forces in American life. The introduction also describes auto-ethnography and discourse analysis, and discusses how these methods are used throughout the work. It also offers a profile of the South Asian American community in Muncie and of South Asians in the United States.

Seeing Yourself in History

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Caswell
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Board Member ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
The South ◽  
Community Based ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
Symbolic Annihilation ◽  
Marginalized Groups

Building on the author’s experiences as the co-founder and a board member of the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), this article posits that independent, community-based archives are crucial tools for fighting the symbolic annihilation of historically marginalized groups.

The South Asian American Canon

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Arnab Dutta Roy
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The South ◽  
South Asian American
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