Indian accents : brown voice and racial performance in American television and film /
"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...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press
[2013]
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| Reeks: | Asian American experience.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt2ttc7z |
Inhoudsopgave:
- ""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""