Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America

Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America. Sunaina Maira, Rajini Srikanth, eds. New York. Asian American Writers' Workshop. 1997 (C) 1996). xxi + 480 pages, ill. $16.95. ISBN 1889876-00-3.

Books on and by the diaspora of North America are proliferating, because the diasporas have rapidly increased in numbers and in achievements during the last decade. The present volume on the South Asian diaspora is one of a series pub lished by the Asian American Writers' Workshop; other volumes in the series deal with other diasporas, such as...