Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:23:17 +1030
From: Sudip Sen <sudip-AT-senet.com.au>
Subject: to all you second generation S-Asians out there.


>Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 11:32:00
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.com
>From: Sudip Sen <sudip-AT-senet.com.au>
>Subject: to all you second generation S-Asians out there.
>
>Who are the best writers/theorists about us? 
>My answer would be hanif kureishi,... I haven't read any bharati mukherjee
but she seems to be the type of writer I would enjoy.
>then ofcourse there are the exile crowd.. uncle salman and a few
post-colonial theorists.
>
>Does anyone sometimes feel that post-colonial theory can be a little closed
minded sometimes? Ofcourse, it seems the first thing that gets said against
anyone that alleges this is that they are victims of some hegemonic
metanarrative.
>Too simplistic perhaps. I need to be convinced otherwise, and fast. 
>
>I need help in a thesis on identity of second generation South Asians,
Indians - Pakistanis, but ofcourse not limited to them. 
>I enjoy the above writers, but am particularly interested what others in my
position:
>second generation immigrant, born in the US, UK, Canada, Australia,
actually think and relate to their Indianness or whatever.
>I am struggling with the purely cathartic, and seemingly quite angry (Aijaz
Ahmed!!!) theorists who don't seem to be useful. Are there any moderates in
post-colonial theory. I like some of the insights of Orientalism, but want
to talk more about p-col theory (and its appropriation of often reluctant
literature) and the identity questions and struggles that middle-upper class
second generation (our parents were the migrants) diaspora face. 
>Arranged? what do you speak/eat at home? how much do you know, care to
know, about your heritage? how important is it to identify with others in
your situation? etc etc
>
>I hope that interests someone out there!     I'd love to get a response, Sudip.
>



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