"Bhalla's nuanced, sensitive analysis illuminates how nonacademic readers grapple with issues of authenticity, class, and gender as they engage with transnational South Asian literature. This rigorously-researched book significantly enhances discussions of the consumption and marketing of ethnic literatures and identities."--Megan Sweeney, author of The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading
"Bhalla ultimately elucidates an affirmative potentiality from which elite tradition (in this case, literary production) encounters quotidian praxis and produces new forms of collective belonging."--Journal of Asian American Studies
"Bhalla ultimately elucidates an affirmative potentiality from which elite tradition (in this case, literary production) encounters quotidian praxis and produces new forms of collective belonging."--Journal of Asian American Studies