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Full Record for Text No. 132


Author 1:Perminder Dhillon-Kashyap
Title:Locating the Asian Experience
Published in:Screen
Edited by:
Place:
Publisher:
Year:1988
Vol./No./Date:29, no. 4
Pages:120-126
Location:TABB
Synopsis:This article deplores the lack of interest of white and black theorists in the Asian experience/perspective as it is reflected in films by British Asians. The author briefly discusses popular myths (arranged marriage, domestic violence, identity crisis) and reviews a number of productions which work against reductionism and misrepresentation.
Keyword 1:women
Keyword 2:black British film
Keyword 3:gender
Keyword 4:society
Keyword 5:Britain
Keyword 6:representation
Keyword 7:stereotype
Keyword 8:prejudice
Keyword 9:Asian

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