{"id":1049,"date":"2010-03-21T14:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:21:18","slug":"grewal-inderpal-transnational-america-feminisms-diasporas-neoliberalisms-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"Grewal, Inderpal. Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1098\" title=\"TransnationalAmerica_klein\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/TransnationalAmerica_klein.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5\" height=\"8\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1101\" title=\"TransnationalAmerica\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/TransnationalAmerica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/>&#8220;Transnational America&#8221; is a path-breaking study of the production of middle-class Indian and American citizens in the context of late-twentieth-century neoliberalism. Inderpal Grewal considers how the circulation and travels of South Asian Indians between India and the U.S. during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply framing the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes unilateral political power in the world, Grewal analyzes how the concept of &#8216;America&#8217; functions as a nationalist discourse beyond the boundaries of the United States by disseminating an ideal of democratic citizenship through consumer practices. Grewal combines a postcolonial perspective with social and cultural theory to argue that contemporary notions of gender, race, class, and nationality are linked to earlier histories of colonization and, in particular, to the consumer culture that emerged from colonization. Focusing on three novelists who emigrated from India to the United States, she considers how a concept of Americanness becomes linked to cosmopolitanism. Through an analysis of Mattel&#8217;s sales of Barbie dolls in India, she shows how American products are consumed by middle-class Indian women with financial means created by India&#8217;s market liberalization. Considering the fate of asylum-seekers, Grewal looks at how a global feminism in which female refugees are figured as human rights victims emerged from a Western subjectivity. In drawing attention to an &#8216;America&#8217; created through the global circulation of people, goods, social movements, rights discourses and more, Grewal makes a powerful, nuanced argument that America must be understood &#8211; and studied &#8211; as a dynamic entity produced and transformed both within and far beyond its territorial boundaries. \u00a9 1998-2001 Amazon.com, Inc. und Tochtergesellschaften<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0822335441?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=interassocofi-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0822335441\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Buy at Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/gp\/product\/0822335441?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=interassocofi-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=0822335441\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Buy at Amazon.de<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grewal, Inderpal. <em>Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms<\/em>. 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