Shaping Indian Diaspora : Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption Away from the Desi.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (180 pages)
Intro -- 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 Smoke -- IV: 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.
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.