Virtual Homelands Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States

Name: Virtual Homelands Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States
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ISBN: 9780252080227

ISBN-10: 025208022X

ISBN-13: 9780252080227

Edition: 2014

Authors: Madhavi Mallapragada

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The internet has transformed the idea of home for Indians and Indian Americans. In Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States, Madhavi Mallapragada analyzes home pages and other online communities organized by diasporic and immigrant Indians from the late 1990s through the social media period. Engaging the shifting aspects of belonging, immigrant politics, and cultural citizenship by linking the home page, household, and homeland as key sites, Mallapragada illuminates the contours of belonging and reveals how Indian American struggles over it trace back to the web's active mediation in representing, negotiating, and reimagining "home." As Mallapragada…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English