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Cultural Angst and Diasporic Echoes Amka Handa Of Silk Saris And Mini-skirts: South Asian Girls Walk The Tightrope Of Culture. Women's P $24-95
Writer and sociologist Amita Handa strides skillfully into the lives of 14 young South Asian Canadian women in her book Of Silk Saris and Mini-Skirts. In her interviews with the women she seeks to uncover the particular cultural angst of their dichotomous lives in Toronto. Their candid, poignant, and often confused revelations expose the cultural binaries that haunt and define their experiences.
Handa uses her own experiences as a South Asian immigrant to highlight the almost natural state of identity suspension that happens to immigrants. She uncovers how, unable...