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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826435303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-1496-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

820.9/891411

Soggetti

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

East Indians - Foreign countries - Intellectual life

East Indian diaspora in literature

India In literature

India In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.