Unhomed knowledge: The diasporic family as site of subaltern pedagogy

One promise of diaspora is surely that it could allow the subaltern woman to negotiate her transfer into the elite—whether through taking a legible place in a new nation’s story; access to institutions of communication and education; or the secured and settled reproduction of her own family. In the proposed chapter, using a combination of postcolonial historical, auto-ethnographic, and autobiographical methods, I trace the ways in which such a promise unfolds unevenly across three generations of women in one family from the South Asian diaspora.