Good Girls Marry Doctors

From the publisher that brought us Gloria Anzaldua’s classic work Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), now comes Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion. Aunt Lute Books gives us this 2016 anthology of short stories edited by Piyali Bhattacha...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c33de231317649d593762ebce76d6f882021-12-02T19:41:21ZGood Girls Marry Doctors10.35632/ajis.v34i2.7722690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/c33de231317649d593762ebce76d6f882017-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/772https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 From the publisher that brought us Gloria Anzaldua’s classic work Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), now comes Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion. Aunt Lute Books gives us this 2016 anthology of short stories edited by Piyali Bhattacharya that, I envision, will strike a similar chord of deep resonance with those who are living in the liminal spaces of mixed consciousness, mixed cultures, mixed religions – the South Asian American diasporic community and beyond. The striking cover of the book shows a graphic illustration of a brown girl decked in traditional South Asian gold jewelry and a red sarhi, her hand slipping underneath the fabric below her waist, leaving the viewer to imagine that she is feelin’ herself. The style of writing and the range of themes allow this book to speak to a multitude of audiences. The book can easily be included in syllabi ranging from South Asian American studies, American studies, and Islamic studies to women/gender/sexuality studies, cultural studies, and affect theory. What Bhattacharya set out to do over a span of eight years in bringing this collection to fruition is to create for herself and the women she knew a network, a community, a support system (p. v) – “we had to find our tribe” (p. viii). What I find interesting and useful in this collection is that it can be used as an illustration of how gender and sexuality frame affective knowledge production and world-making in diasporic communities ... Sara HaqInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 34, Iss 2 (2017)
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Good Girls Marry Doctors
description From the publisher that brought us Gloria Anzaldua’s classic work Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), now comes Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion. Aunt Lute Books gives us this 2016 anthology of short stories edited by Piyali Bhattacharya that, I envision, will strike a similar chord of deep resonance with those who are living in the liminal spaces of mixed consciousness, mixed cultures, mixed religions – the South Asian American diasporic community and beyond. The striking cover of the book shows a graphic illustration of a brown girl decked in traditional South Asian gold jewelry and a red sarhi, her hand slipping underneath the fabric below her waist, leaving the viewer to imagine that she is feelin’ herself. The style of writing and the range of themes allow this book to speak to a multitude of audiences. The book can easily be included in syllabi ranging from South Asian American studies, American studies, and Islamic studies to women/gender/sexuality studies, cultural studies, and affect theory. What Bhattacharya set out to do over a span of eight years in bringing this collection to fruition is to create for herself and the women she knew a network, a community, a support system (p. v) – “we had to find our tribe” (p. viii). What I find interesting and useful in this collection is that it can be used as an illustration of how gender and sexuality frame affective knowledge production and world-making in diasporic communities ...
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