Title
“The Shadow Class”: Immigration and Class in Contemporary South Asian/American Fiction.”
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article explores the representation of non-elite immigrants from South Asia to the United States in the fiction of Kiran Desai and Ameena Hussein. The works of these two writers shift the conventional representation of South Asian immigration to the United States as a middle and upper class phenomenon to a representation of the ways that non-elite South Asian immigrant experiences connect with the experiences of immigrants from around the world whose mobility is limited and whose imagined version of their prospective host country is shaped by incomplete and even illusory information.
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Comments
Jayasuriya, Maryse. "“The Shadow Class”". Journeys 10.1: 69-81. <https://doi.org/10.3167/jys.2009.100105>.