India Abroad
Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England
Seiten
2003
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-09266-9 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-09266-9 (ISBN)
- Titel ist leider vergriffen;
keine Neuauflage - Artikel merken
Analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947. This work considers how Indian diaspora has become a contact zone for various formations of identity and discourses of nation. It argues that the multi-sitedness of diaspora compels a rethinking of time and space in anthropology.
"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 people 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 "America" 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 people, displaced and otherwise, live.
"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 people 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 "America" 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 people, displaced and otherwise, live.
Sandhya Shukla is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at Columbia University.
INTRODUCTION Geographies of Indianness 1 ONE Histories and Nations 25 TWO Little Indias, Places for Indian Diasporas 78 THREE Affiliations and Ascendancy of Diasporic Literature 132 FOUR India in Print, India Abroad 175 FIVE Generations of Indian Diaspora 213 EPILOGUE Presents and Futures 249 NOTES 253 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 303 INDEX 305
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.9.2003 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 13 halftones. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 624 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-09266-4 / 0691092664 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-09266-9 / 9780691092669 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Prolegomena zu einer Geschichte der Magie
Buch | Hardcover (2025)
Matthes & Seitz Berlin (Verlag)
CHF 53,20
ethnographische Texte
Buch | Hardcover (2025)
Konstanz University Press (Verlag)
CHF 36,40
Buch | Hardcover (2021)
Konstanz University Press (Verlag)
CHF 39,20
