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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821963303321

Titolo

South Asian transnationalisms : cultural exchange in the twentieth century / / editor Babli Sinha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-135-71839-3

0-203-72070-9

1-135-71832-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

South Asian History and Culture

Altri autori (Persone)

SinhaBabli

Disciplina

303.48209540904

Soggetti

Transnationalism

Cultural fusion - South Asia

South Asia Relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,