South Asian Diaspora Narratives : Roots and Routes

Amit Sarwal

ISBN 10: 8131607909 / ISBN 13: 9788131607909

Published by Rawat Publications, 2016

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Contents: 1. South Asian Diaspora in Australia: History, Research, and Literature. 2. An Element of Romanticization: Sensory and Spatial Locations. 3. A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location. 4. Real, Imagined, and Mythologized: (Re)Presentation of Lost Home. 5. Acts of Remembering and Forgetting: Reflections through Nostalgia. 6. An Australian Learning Experience: Prejudice, Racism, and Indifference. 7. Another World, Another Future. 8. Conclusion: Thoda Indian, Thoda Aussie. South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Roots and Routes, analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of rooting into a culture and routing out of a culture . These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in a liminal space, in-between two identities, two cultures, and two histories. Yet, home remains, through acts of imagination, remembering and re-creation, an important reference point. It argues that a clearer notion of politics of location will be required to distinguish the different kinds of dislocation the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. This book fills a lacuna in the South Asian Diaspora studies by analysing and calling upon a wide range of works in this field from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary studies. (jacket).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: South Asian Diaspora Narratives : Roots and Routes
• Publisher: Rawat Publications
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8131607909
• ISBN 13: 9788131607909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Roots and Routes, analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of 'rooting into a culture' and 'routing out of a culture'. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in a liminal space, in-between two identities, two cultures, and two histories. Yet, 'home' remains, through acts of imagination, remembering and re-creation, an important reference point. It argues that a clearer notion of politics of location will be required to distinguish the different kinds of 'dislocation' the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. This book fills a lacuna in the South Asian Diaspora studies by analysing and calling upon a wide range of works in this field from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary studies.

About the Author

Amit Sarwal is a Producer at SBS Hindi Radio in Melbourne, Australia. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor of RMIT University and the Founding Convenor of Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network (AIIRN). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Deakin University and has also taught as Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi. He has many books to his credit, prominent being: Salaam Bollywood (Routledge, 2016), Labels and Locations (CSP, 2015), Bollywood and its Other(s) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and Wanderings in India (Monash University Press, 2012).