Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
This article outlines a dialogical approach to understanding how South Asian-American women living in diasporic locations negotiate their multiple and often conflicting cultural identities. We specifically use the concept of voice to articulate the different forms of dialogicality--polyphonization, expropriation, and ventriloquation--that are involved in the acculturation experiences of two 2nd-generation South Asian-American women. In particular, we argue that it is important to think of acculturation of the South Asian-American women as essentially a contested, dynamic, and dialogical process. We demonstrate that such a dialogical process involves a constant moving back and forth between various cultural voices that are connected to various sociocultural contexts and are shaped by issues of race, sexuality, and gender.
Recommended Citation
Bhatia, S. & Ram A. (2004). Culture, hybridity and the dialogical self: Cases from the South Asian-American Diaspora. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 11,(3), 224-240.
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Comments
Published in: Mind, Culture, and Activity, vol.11, no.3, 2004.