TY - BOOK AU - Abeer Salah Amin AU - Cecile Tewfik , AU - Salwa Demerdash , TI - Viewing through the lens of Hybridity : : The representation of the Asian American in selected novels by Bharati Mukherjee and Chang-rae lee / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Abeer Salah Amin , KW - Assimilation KW - Hybridity KW - Third space N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD N2 - This thesis examines four novels two major Asian American authors namely Bharati Mukherjee and Chang-rae lee . Through the application of postcolonial theories the thesis examines how Asian American immigrants can find a space for themselves in their new host land . Chang-rae lee's native speaker (1995) and A Gesture life (1999) as well as Bharati Mukherjee`s jasmine (1989) and Desirable Daughters (2002) are selected for analysis UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -