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UNINA9910255072303321 |
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Autore |
Sarwal Amit |
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Titolo |
South Asian Diaspora Narratives : Roots and Routes / / by Amit Sarwal |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIII, 184 p. 1 illus.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology—Asia |
Emigration and immigration |
Historiography |
Asian Culture |
Migration |
Memory Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction: Roots and Routes -- 2. South Asian Diaspora in Australia: History, Research, and Literature -- 3. An Element of Romanticization: Sensory and Spatial Locations -- 4. A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location -- 5. Real, Imagined, and Mythologized: (Re)Presentation of Lost Home -- 6. Acts of Remembering and Forgetting: Reflections through Nostalgia -- 7. An Australian Learning Experience: Prejudice, Racism, and Indifference -- 8. Another World, Another Future -- 9. Conclusion: Thoda Indian, Thoda Aussie. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in a liminal space, in-between two identities, two cultures, and two histories. Yet, ‘home’ remains, through acts of imagination, remembering and re-creation, an important reference point. The author argues that a clearer notion of politics of location is required to distinguish between the different kinds of ‘dislocation’ the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. The diaspora is |
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Australia is an under-studied topic, and this book fills a lacuna in South Asian diaspora studies by analysing and calling upon a wide range of works in this field from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary studies. . |
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