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South Asian transnationalisms : cultural exchange in the twentieth century / editor Babli Sinha.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- South Asian history and culture.
- South Asian History and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transnationalism.
- Cultural fusion--South Asia.
- Cultural fusion.
- South Asia--Relations.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United States, continental Europe, the Caribbean, and East Asia, the contributors interrogate the relationships between identity and agency, language and space, race and empire, nation and ethnicity, and diaspora and nationality.This book deploys transnational syntaxes such as cinema, dance,
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Tropical longing: the quest for India in the early twentieth-century Caribbean; 3. A productive distance from the nation: Uday Shankar and the defining of Indian modern dance; 4. Transnational resistance and fictive truths: Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and the Indian nationalist movement; 5. Colonial encounters between India and Indonesia; 6. Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India
- 7. The eternal return and overcoming 'Cape Fear': science, sensation, Superman and Hindu nationalism in recent Hindi cinema8. Ur-national and secular mythologies: popular culture, nationalist historiography and strategic essentialism; 9. Visual culture and violence: inventing intimacy and citizenship in recent South Asian cinema; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 15, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-135-71839-3
- 0-203-72070-9
- 1-135-71832-6
- 9780203720707
- OCLC:
- 871257894
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