India Abroad (eBook)

Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England

Sandhya Shukla (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22761-0 (ISBN)

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India Abroad analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947, the year of Indian independence, to the present. Across different spheres of culture--festivals, entrepreneurial enclaves, fiction, autobiography, newspapers, music, and film--migrants have created India as a way to negotiate life in the multicultural United States and Britain. Sandhya Shukla considers how Indian diaspora has become a contact zone for various formations of identity and discourses of nation. She suggests that carefully reading the production of a diasporic sensibility, one that is not simply an outgrowth of the nation-state, helps us to conceive of multiple imaginaries, of America, England, and India, as articulated to one another. Both the connections and disconnections among peoples who see themselves as in some way Indian are brought into sharp focus by this comparativist approach. This book provides a unique combination of rich ethnographic work and textual readings to illuminate the theoretical concerns central to the growing fields of diaspora studies and transnational cultural studies. Shukla argues that the multi-sitedness of diaspora compels a rethinking of time and space in anthropology, as well as in other disciplines. Necessarily, the standpoint of global belonging and citizenship makes the boundaries of the "e;America"e; in American studies a good deal more porous. And in dialogue with South Asian studies and Asian American studies, this book situates postcolonial Indian subjectivity within migrants' transnational recastings of the meanings of race and ethnicity. Interweaving conceptual and material understandings of diaspora, India Abroad finds that in constructed Indias, we can see the contradictions of identity and nation that are central to the globalized condition in which all peoples, displaced and otherwise, live.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 13 halftones.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • activism • African Americans • African Times • Afro-Caribbean • Afro-Caribbeans • americans • American Studies • Amitav Ghosh • Anderson, Benedict • Anti-Imperialism • Asian Americans • Asian American studies • Asian Monitor (New York) • Bangladesh • Bangladeshis • Barringer, Herbert • Bharati Mukherjee • Bhatia, Shyam • Bollywood • Borra, Ranjan • British Empire • British Indian • British National Party • Central High School (Little Rock) • Chatterjee, Partha • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • Colonialism • Cosmopolitanism • Cowley, Malcolm • Culture of India • Dadabhai Naoroji • Daniels, Roger • Desai, Sumeet • Diaspora • Diwali • Diwali Festival (JHMA) • Eagleton, Terry • Elephant Archway (Gaj Dwar) • ESL (English as a Second Language) • ethnic group • Ethnic Origin • evocation • Exclusion • fictive ethnicity • First World • Friends of India • Futterman, Steve • Ghadar newspaper • Glissant, Edouard • Globalization • Greater London Council • Gujarat • Hardt, Michael • Hindu • Hinduism • Hindu religious sects • Hoshiarpur immigrants (England) • identity formation • Identity politics • Ideology • Immigration • imperialism • India Abroad • India House (London) • Indian Americans • Indian Association of Long Island • Indian National Congress • Indian Nationalism • Indian Subcontinent • Indian Workers' Association • Jacobson, Matthew Frye • Jawaharlal Nehru • Jews • Jullundhur immigrants (England) • Kaplan, Amy • Kenya • Kipling, Rudyard • laborer • Lagaan (film) • Lascar • Legislation • Lincoln, Abraham • Literature • Maira, Sunaina • Mercury Music Prize • minority group • Modernity • mukherjee • Multiculturalism • Multitone record company • Myanmar • narrative • Nation • national belonging principle • national identity • Nationalism • Nationality • Nationalization • nation state • newspaper • New Yorker • Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin • Notting Hill • Oliver, Paul • Pachori, Satya Sheel • Padmanabhan, Arvind • Pakistan • pakistanis • Park, Kyeyoung • paternalism • Perez, Miguel • Periodization • Politics • Postcolonialism • Print Culture • Publication • Public sphere • Queensboro Corporation • Race (human categorization) • Racialization • racial profiling • Racism • residence • Safran, William • Sagoo, Bally • Sandher, Sukh • Second Generation • sensibility • Sikh • Sociology • Southall • Southall Black Sisters • South Asia • South Asian ethnic groups • State (polity) • Structuring • Subjectivity • Thapar, Romila • The Newspaper • The New York Times • The Other Hand • The Shadow Lines • The Times of India • third world • This Country • transnationalism • Uganda • United States • Unity in diversity • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22761-6 / 0691227616
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22761-0 / 9780691227610