Homemaking (eBook)

Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora

Anindya Raychaudhuri (Autor)

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2018
224 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-264-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Explores the impact of nostalgia on the construction of individual and collective identity for diasporic South-Asians in the UK and US. It argues that in the postcolonial context the affect produced by this nostalgia can have radical potential as a form of resistance.

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Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora examines diasporic life in south Asian communities in Europe, North America and Australia, to map the ways in which members of these communities use nostalgia to construct distinctive identities. Using a series of examples from literature, cinema, visual art, music, computer games, mainstream media, physical and virtual spaces and many other cultural objects, this book argues that it is possible, and necessary, to read this nostalgia as helping to create a powerful notion of home that can help to transcend international relations of empire and capital, and create instead a pan-national space of belonging.This homemaking represents the persistent search for somewhere to belong on one's own terms. Constructed through word, image and music, preserved through dreams and imagination, the home provides sustenance in the continuing struggle to change the present and the future for the better.

Autor

lt;span style="font-weight:bold;">Anindya Raychaudhuri is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include postcolonial and diasporic identities and cultures, cultural representation and collective memory of war and conflict, critical theory and Marxism. He is the author of Narrating Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema (OUP, 2019). In 2016, he was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments / Preface / Introduction - “Ich Will Heim”: Nostalgia and the Radical Possibilities of Homemaking / Chapter 1 - “Doubly Expatriated”: Duleep Singh and the Politics of Nostalgia / Chapter 2 – A Teacher, a Factory-Worker, and a “Battered” Housewife: Rebellious Nostalgias, Nostalgias of Rebellion / Chapter 3 - Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine: Food, Foodscapes and Nostalgia / Chapter 4 – “Straight from the Village”: Diasporic Public Spaces and the Heterotopias of Nostalgia / Chapter 5 – Salaam, London: Bollywood, Wish Fulfilment, and the Fictive Geographies of the Diaspora / Chapter 6 - Making Yourself at Home: Homemaking and Diasporic Asian Broadcasting / Conclusion - Going Back Home: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards. / Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Asian cultural studies • Cultural Studies • Culture and Critical Theory • Diaspora • identity and difference • Memory • Nostalgia • Place and Space
• ISBN-10: 1-78348-264-8 / 1783482648
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78348-264-1 / 9781783482641