India Abroad : Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England /
Shukla, Sandhya
India Abroad : Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England / Sandhya Shukla. - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 13 halftones.
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Geographies of Indianness -- ONE Histories and Nations -- TWO Little Indias, Places for Indian Diasporas -- THREE Affiliations and Ascendancy of Diasporic Literature -- FOUR India in Print, India Abroad -- FIVE Generations of Indian Diaspora -- EPILOGUE Presents and Futures -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
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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 "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 peoples, displaced and otherwise, live.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691227610
10.1515/9780691227610 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
African Times. Afro-Caribbeans. Anderson, Benedict. Asian Monitor (New York). Barringer, Herbert. Bhatia, Shyam. Borra, Ranjan. British National Party. Central High School (Little Rock). Chatterjee, Partha. Cowley, Malcolm. Daniels, Roger. Desai, Sumeet. Diwali Festival (JHMA). ESL (English as a Second Language). Eagleton, Terry. Elephant Archway (Gaj Dwar). Friends of India. Futterman, Steve. Ghadar newspaper. Glissant, Edouard. Greater London Council. Hardt, Michael. Hindu religious sects. Hoshiarpur immigrants (England). India House (London). Indian Association of Long Island. Indian National Congress. Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Jullundhur immigrants (England). Kaplan, Amy. Kipling, Rudyard. Lagaan (film). Lincoln, Abraham. Maira, Sunaina. Mercury Music Prize. Multitone record company. New Yorker. Oliver, Paul. Pachori, Satya Sheel. Padmanabhan, Arvind. Park, Kyeyoung. Perez, Miguel. Queensboro Corporation. Safran, William. Sagoo, Bally. Sandher, Sukh. Thapar, Romila. fictive ethnicity. national belonging principle. racial profiling. second generation.
India Abroad : Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England / Sandhya Shukla. - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 13 halftones.
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Geographies of Indianness -- ONE Histories and Nations -- TWO Little Indias, Places for Indian Diasporas -- THREE Affiliations and Ascendancy of Diasporic Literature -- FOUR India in Print, India Abroad -- FIVE Generations of Indian Diaspora -- EPILOGUE Presents and Futures -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 "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 peoples, displaced and otherwise, live.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691227610
10.1515/9780691227610 doi
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
African Times. Afro-Caribbeans. Anderson, Benedict. Asian Monitor (New York). Barringer, Herbert. Bhatia, Shyam. Borra, Ranjan. British National Party. Central High School (Little Rock). Chatterjee, Partha. Cowley, Malcolm. Daniels, Roger. Desai, Sumeet. Diwali Festival (JHMA). ESL (English as a Second Language). Eagleton, Terry. Elephant Archway (Gaj Dwar). Friends of India. Futterman, Steve. Ghadar newspaper. Glissant, Edouard. Greater London Council. Hardt, Michael. Hindu religious sects. Hoshiarpur immigrants (England). India House (London). Indian Association of Long Island. Indian National Congress. Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Jullundhur immigrants (England). Kaplan, Amy. Kipling, Rudyard. Lagaan (film). Lincoln, Abraham. Maira, Sunaina. Mercury Music Prize. Multitone record company. New Yorker. Oliver, Paul. Pachori, Satya Sheel. Padmanabhan, Arvind. Park, Kyeyoung. Perez, Miguel. Queensboro Corporation. Safran, William. Sagoo, Bally. Sandher, Sukh. Thapar, Romila. fictive ethnicity. national belonging principle. racial profiling. second generation.