South Asian Diasporas and (Imaginary) Homelands

Narratives, Representations and Mediated Exchanges
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-88578-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

This edited volume looks at the ways in which films, literature, photography and social media construct images of homelands and diasporas as well as the ways in which they facilitate exchanges between them. The volume presents with a dialogue between these representations and analyses how they are constructed, disseminated, appropriated and/or challenged in relation to recent political developments in South Asia and in the diaspora.

Focusing on images and narratives about South Asia and its diaspora, the book aims to re-centre the political nature of representations, as it addresses the interplay between representation, imagination and identity, with a specific focus on the South Asian diasporic experience. 

This book will interest students and scholars of media, communication, popular culture, cultural studies, Asian studies, politics and sociology.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clini, Clelia

Valan¿i¿nas, Deimantas

Valanciunas, Deimantas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – South Asian diasporas and (imaginary) homelands: thinking through representations 1. Who is afraid of hybridity? Re-visiting Bhaji on the Beach and perspectives on multiculturalism in Britain 2. Diasporic visions: colonialism, nostalgia and the empire in Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House 3. Haunting memories: Sri Lankan civil war, trauma and diaspora in literature and film 4. The days of plenty: images of first generation Malayali migrants in the Arabian Gulf 5. Lost and found, centre and periphery: narratives of the Jain diasporic experience online 6. Indo-Caribbean diaspora, foreign policy, and iterations of Hindu identity 7. Negotiating identity in the diaspora: the role of South Asian youth organizations

Über Autor(innen)

Clelia Clini is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Media and Culture, School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is also Visiting Fellow in Postcolonial Memory in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. She has published in the field of South Asian diasporic literature and cinema; memories and post-memories of the 1947 Partition of British India; migration and the Indian Punjabi diaspora in Italy; forced displacement, creative arts and wellbeing.

Deimantas Valanciunas is Associate Professor of film and popular cultures of Asia at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania. His research interests include Indian cinema, postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, gothic and horror cinemas in Asia. He is a co-editor of a volume titled South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories and Media (University of Wales Press, 2021) and of a number of journal articles on Indian cinema.