Diversity Quota - Softcover

Adiga, Ranjan

 
9780299348441: Diversity Quota
Softcover
ISBN 10: 029934844X ISBN 13: 9780299348441
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Complicating the idea of a single immigrant narrative, the stories in Diversity Quota move from the US to Nepal and back again, showing how displacement can lead to suffering or hope-sometimes simultaneously. In Kathmandu, Nepalis are frequently caught up in battles between tradition and progress; in the United States, their cultural dislocation is often emblematic of the larger predicaments immigrants face. Ranjan Adiga navigates these larger problems of racism, inequity, and gender roles, while simultaneously centering the humanity of his characters, flaws and all.

In these stories, the lines between "winners" and "losers" in a rapidly globalizing world become frayed and warped. A Nepali migrant's worst fears materialize in "Leech." A couple in "Denver" tries to acclimate to a new social class. A middle-aged man is attracted to his barber in "Haircut and Massage." A Nepali professor is captivated by a white American student in "The Diversity Committee." In often unexpected ways, Adiga captures moments of survival amid worlds colored by precarity.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ranjan Adiga’s stories and articles have appeared in Story Quarterly, the New York Times, Huffington Post, and the Salt Lake Tribune, among others. Originally from Nepal, he now teaches creative writing at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
029934844X
ISBN 13 
9780299348441
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
164
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