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Indian accents : brown voice and racial performance in American television and film / Shilpa S. Davé.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252094583
  • 9781299243200
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .I535 2013
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Contents:
Subject: "The representation of Indian Americans as foreign terrorists and as citizens who speak with an American accent comprise a major plot point in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. In American media, South Asians vacillate between being cast as racially foreign while simultaneously being praised as a model minority because they are highly educated, speak English, and can economically succeed in America. In American cinema and television, Shilpa Davé serves how contemporary images of South Asians build upon, modify, and at times diverge from previous stereotypes of Asian Americans as immigrants and model minorities"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PN1995.9.255 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1097148932

Includes bibliographies and index.

"The representation of Indian Americans as foreign terrorists and as citizens who speak with an American accent comprise a major plot point in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. In American media, South Asians vacillate between being cast as racially foreign while simultaneously being praised as a model minority because they are highly educated, speak English, and can economically succeed in America. In American cinema and television, Shilpa Davé serves how contemporary images of South Asians build upon, modify, and at times diverge from previous stereotypes of Asian Americans as immigrants and model minorities"--

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. Rethinking Accents in America""; ""1. South Asians and the Hollywood Party: Peter Sellers and Brownface Performances""; ""2. Apu's Brown Voice: The Simpsons and Indian American Accents""; ""3. Animating Gandhi: Historical Figures, Asian American Masculinity, and Model-Minority Accents in ""; ""4. Indian Gurus in the American Marketplace: Consumer Spirituality in The Love Guru and The Guru""

""5. The (Asian) American Dream: Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and the Pan-Ethnic Buddy Film""""6. ""Running from the Joint"": Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and Comic Narrative after 9""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

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