Shaping Indian diaspora : literary representations and Bollywood consumption away from the Desi / edited by Veena Dwivedi and Cristina Gámez-Fernández.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dwivedi, Veena, editor.

Gámez-Fernández, Cristina M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature (English)--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

Indic literature (English).

East Indians--Foreign countries--Intellectual life.

East Indians.

East Indian diaspora in literature.

India--In literature.

India.

India--In motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

Shaping Indian Diaspora examines the cultural and social practices and the artistic manifestations of the Indian diaspora around the world. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors highlight the intersections of diaspora and artistic production.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I: Home Diaspora after Indian Partition; Chapter One: Stories of Hasan Azizul Huq and the Shaping of Indian Diaspora in post-Partition India; II: Great Britain and Scotland; Chapter Two: "Seeing through a Glass"; Chapter Three: Roots and Routes in Meera Syal's Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee; Chapter Four: Indo-Scottish Cultural Flows; III: United States of America; Chapter Five: Rice and Fish; Chapter Six: The Ebb and Flow of Homecoming

Chapter Seven: Historicizing Diaspora, Multiculturalism, and Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and River of SmokeIV: Canada; Chapter Eight: Diaspora Identity in Kim and The Cat's Table; V: Australia and New Zealand; Chapter Nine: Alternative Literary Spaces; Chapter Ten: Outside, Inside, and Somewhere In Between; VI: Bollywood and Diaspora; Chapter Eleven: Little Indias: Diasporic Communities in the US and the Consumption of Bollywood; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-1496-0