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This thesis studies the contemporary landscape of South Asian American Young Adult Literature through its relationship with a specific set of emic readers, namely, young, wealthy South Asian Americans living in suburban ethnic enclaves. It explores how the bildungsroman format privileges uniquely South Asian generational conflicts and inherited traumas that craft a hybrid, mutable sense of identity. The answer to the question the title poses, “What does it mean to be both Indian and, like, American?” is simply a slew of related questions that signify different things to each individual. Using the case studies of three recent releases in the genre, this thesis endeavors to illustrate that second-generation immigrant identity conflicts are not a power struggle between two binaristic identities, but instead create a generative space that embraces different parts of any identity. |
