Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

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



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Titolo: South Asian transnationalisms : cultural exchange in the twentieth century / / editor Babli Sinha Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
Disciplina: 303.48209540904
Soggetto topico: Transnationalism
Cultural fusion - South Asia
Soggetto geografico: South Asia Relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: SinhaBabli  
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,
Titolo autorizzato: South Asian transnationalisms  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-203-72070-9
1-135-71832-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463976703321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: South Asian history and culture.