Autor: Lise-Hélène Smith

Anjana Narayan is an assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. Her areas of interest include ethnicity, migration, and gender. She is the co-author of Living our Religions: Hindu and Muslim South Asian-American Women Narrate Their Experiences (Kumarian Press 2009). She is a recipient of the American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America 2010 ‘Early Career Award’. She also holds a postgraduate degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai (India). She has been associated with a range of innovative initiatives in the field of women and development in India.Lise-Hélène Smith is Assistant Professor of World Literature at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her areas of interest include exile, hybridity, and migration as linked to race and gender in the Southeast Asian diaspora as well as in Francophone, and colonial/postcolonial literatures. She is currently working on a book project on the aesthetics of representation in Vietnamese diasporic literature from North America and France.