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Graphic migrations : precarity and gender in India and the diaspora / Kavita Daiya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daiya, Kavita, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asians--Migrations.
- South Asians.
- South Asian diaspora in literature.
- Partition, Territorial, in literature.
- Forced migration--India.
- Forced migration.
- Collective memory--India.
- Collective memory.
- Secularism--India.
- Secularism.
- Gender identity.
- India.
- Gender identity--India.
- Refugees in art.
- India--History--Partition, 1947--Influence.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question "What is created?" after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition migrations shape and influence the political and cultural imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship for South Asians in India and its diasporas. Daiya analyzes modern literature, Bollywood films, Margaret Bourke-White's photography, advertising, and print culture to show how they memorialize or erase refugee experiences. She also uses oral testimonies of Partition refugees from Hong Kong, South Asia, and North America to draw out the tensions of the nation-state, ethnic discrimination, and religious difference. Employing both Critical Refugee Studies and Feminist Postcolonial Studies frameworks, Daiya traces the cultural, affective, and political legacies of Partition migrations. -- The precarity generated by modern migration and expressed through public culture prompts a rethinking of how dominant media represents gendered migrants and refugees. Graphic Migrations demands that we redraw the boundaries of how we tell the story of modern world history and the intricately interwoven, intimate production of statelessness and citizenship across the world's communities.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Theorizing "Subaltern Secularism" in the Crisis of Modern Migration. The Remains of Partition: Art, Storytelling, Public Culture
- Secularism in Crisis
- Restorying Migration: The Popular Representation of Refugees' Stories
- Ecologies of Displacement: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens
- #rememberingpartition: Unpacking The Archive
- Chapter 1: "Partition Is Still Happening": Transmedia and Graphic Secularism. Drawing Embodied Secularism: Religion and Pedagogical Nationalism in Print Culture
- Gender, Displacement, and Ecologies of Loss in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Graphic Anthology This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition
- Photojournalism and Bearing Witness in Margaret Bourke-White's Photography
- Chapter 2: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Witnessing: Refugees, Literary Modernism, and the American Diaspora
- Disability, Patriarchal Violence, and Witnessing in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
- Migration, Reproductive Femininity, and Citizenship in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers
- Citizenship and Expulsions in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Media, Violence, and Reparations in the Conflict Zone
- Chapter 3: Melodrama, Community, and Diasporas in Popular Hindi and Accented Cinema. Asian Americans and Secular Crisis in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6
- Surviving Gendered Citizenship and Death in Shyam Benegal's Mammo
- Indo-Pak Intimacy and Border-Crossings in Meghna Gulzar's Raazi and Kabir Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan
- Pakistan, Political Violence, and Failed Intimacies in Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani
- Conclusion: Performing the Secular, Inventing Peace
- Chapter 4: Transnational Asia, Testimony, and New Media
- Border-crossing Advertising: Google Inc. and Secular Intimacies in the Commercial "Reunion" (2013)
- Intergenerational Memories: Rebuilding Life, and Reckoning with Loss in Bombay, Pune, Hong Kong, Washington DC
- New Art and Digital Archive Memory Projects: Testimony and Peace
- Conclusion: Rethinking Mid-Twentieth Century Asia and The Present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Daiya, Kavita, 1970- Graphic migrations
- ISBN:
- 9781439920268
- 1439920265
- Publisher Number:
- 40030166882
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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