Full Description
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.
Contents
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
