Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film
Shilpa S. Dave
Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television. Exploring key examples in popular culture ranging from Peter Sellers' portrayal of Hrundi Bakshi in the 1968 film The Party to contemporary representations such as Apu from The Simpsons and characters in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Shilpa S. Dave develops the ideas of "accent," "brownface," and "brown voice" as new ways to explore the racialization of South Asians beyond just visual appearance. Dave relates these examples to earlier scholarship on blackface, race, and performance to show how "accents" are a means of representing racial difference, national origin, and belonging, as well as distinctions of class and privilege. While focusing on racial impersonations in mainstream film and television, Indian Accents also amplifies the work of South Asian American actors who push back against brown voice performances, showing how strategic use of accent can expand and challenge such narrow stereotypes.
عام:
2013
الإصدار:
1st Edition
الناشر:
University of Illinois Press
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
208
ISBN 10:
0252037405
ISBN 13:
9780252037405
سلسلة الكتب:
Asian American Experience
ملف:
PDF, 3.08 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013