Border Less
Material type: TextPublication details: Gurugram Harper collins 2022Description: 162 pISBN: 9789356290228Subject(s): United States | Women, East Indian | Emigration and immigration | Immigrants | Race relations | American Dream | East IndiansDDC classification: 813.6 Summary: Dia Mittal is an airline call-center agent in Mumbai searching for a better life. As her search takes her to the United States, Dia's checkered relationship with the American Dream dialogues with the experiences and perspectives of a global South Asian community across the class spectrum-call-center agents, travel agents, immigrant maids, fashion designers, blue- and white-collar workers in the hospitality industry, junior and senior artists in Bollywood, hustling single mothers, academics, tourists in the Third World, Afro-Asian refugees displaced by military superpowers, Marwari merchants in the Thar Desert and trade caravans of the Silk Road, among others. What connects the novel's web of border-crossing characters is their quest for belonging and a negotiation of power struggles, mediated by race, class, gender, nationality, age, or place. With its fragmented form, staccato rhythm, repetition, and play with English language, Namrata Poddar's Border Less questions and challenges the assumptions of the "mainstream" Western novel.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | Stack | 813.6 NAM/B (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 59155 |
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813.6 MAN/S Sea of Tranquility | 813.6 McQ/R Red, white & royal blue | 813.6 MUR/F The favour | 813.6 NAM/B Border Less | 813.6 NIT/M The maid | 813.6 REI/C Carrie Soto is back | 813.6 SEL/A After Sappho |
Dia Mittal is an airline call-center agent in Mumbai searching for a better life. As her search takes her to the United States, Dia's checkered relationship with the American Dream dialogues with the experiences and perspectives of a global South Asian community across the class spectrum-call-center agents, travel agents, immigrant maids, fashion designers, blue- and white-collar workers in the hospitality industry, junior and senior artists in Bollywood, hustling single mothers, academics, tourists in the Third World, Afro-Asian refugees displaced by military superpowers, Marwari merchants in the Thar Desert and trade caravans of the Silk Road, among others. What connects the novel's web of border-crossing characters is their quest for belonging and a negotiation of power struggles, mediated by race, class, gender, nationality, age, or place. With its fragmented form, staccato rhythm, repetition, and play with English language, Namrata Poddar's Border Less questions and challenges the assumptions of the "mainstream" Western novel.
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