Indian accents : brown voice and racial performance in American television and film / Shilpa S. Davé

"The representation of Indian Americans as foreign terrorists and as citizens who speak with an American accent comprise a major plot point in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. In American media, South Asians vacillate between being cast as racially foreign while simultaneously being...

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Main Author: Davé, Shilpa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Series:Asian American experience.
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