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India's Imperial Formations - Amrita Ghosh, Rohit Dasgupta, Bhakti Shringarpure

India's Imperial Formations

Cultural Perspectives
Buch | Hardcover
148 Seiten
2024
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-68393-299-4 (ISBN)
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India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion with whiteness, Hindu fundamentalism, casteism, and religious and racial bigotry are rampant, and denies a democratic space of multiple Indias to coexist together.
India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion with whiteness, Hindu fundamentalism, casteism, and religious and racial bigotry are rampant, and create hegemonic imaginaries of an India that denies a democratic space of multiple Indias to coexist together. India is not only home to the world’s largest film industry but also has one of the oldest media ecosystems today with a prolific output in television, radio, print, and digital media. These systems shape hearts and minds in the large nation and also have significant impact in the region as well as in the world due to India’s vast diaspora population. This book argues that Indian culture industries are a crucial site to investigate constructions of Islamophobia, casteism, sinophobia, sexism, colorism and anti-Blackness. Within the work, the authorshighlight the urgent need to evaluate the complicity of Indian and diasporic cultural production in perpetuating a casual and sometimes even aggressive normalization of bigotry and discrimination towards minoritized communities. This polemical book is written by three scholars of culture, gender and postcolonial studies providing an accessible yet rigorous study of these issues.

Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor in South Asian literatures in the Department of English at University of Central Florida. Rohit K Dasgupta is associate professor in gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics & Political Science. Bhakti Shringarpure is co-founder of the Radical Books Collective and an independent scholar.

Introduction: India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives

Chapter 1: The Cultural Industries of India: Imperial & Critical Contexts

Chapter 2: Imperial Cinematic Imaginations: Bollywood’s Race Problem

Chapter 3: “We Love America”: Imperial Indian Diaspora on Television

Chapter 4: Metanarratives of Nation: Race, Caste and Religion

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.12.2024
Verlagsort Cranbury
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-68393-299-4 / 1683932994
ISBN-13 978-1-68393-299-4 / 9781683932994
Zustand Neuware
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