Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives From
This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, th
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Noemí Pereira-Ares
Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives
Noemí Pereira-Ares
Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives From the Eighteenth Century to Monica Ali
Noemí Pereira-Ares University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago, Spain
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The Sari Inside my mother I peered through a glass porthole. The world beyond was hot and brown. They were all looking in on me – Father, Grandmother, the cook’s boy, the sweeper-girl, the bullock with the sharp shoulderblades, the local politicians. My English grandmother took a telescope and gazed across continents. All the people unravelled a sari. It stretched from Lahore to Hyderabad, wavered across the Arabian Sea, shot through with stars, fluttering with sparrows and quails. They threaded it with roads, undulations of land. Eventually they wrapped and wrapped me in it whispering Your body is your country. (Alvi 2008: 39)
Acknowledgements
This book, albeit extensively revised, began as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and I will always be deeply indebted to my Ph.D. supervisors, Margarita Estévez-Saá and José Manuel Estévez-Saá, for their insightful acad
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