Tracing an Indian diaspora : contexts, memories, representations /
Tracing an Indian diaspora : contexts, memories, representations /
edited by Parvati Raghuram [and others].
- Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2008.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 467 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Thinking 'Indian Diaspora' for Our Times; 'Positioning' the Indian Diaspora: The South-east Asian Experience; Forgotten Malaysians? Indians and Malaysian Society; Indo-Fijians: Marooned without Land and Power in a South Pacific Archipelago?; Indo-Caribbean Political Leaders during the Twentieth Century; Citizenship and Dissent in Diaspora: Indian Immigrant Youth in the United States After 9/11; The Indian Diaspora in the United States of America: An Emerging Political Force? Immigration Dynamics in the Receiving State-Emerging Issues for the Indian Diaspora in the United KingdomIndian Diaspora in the United Kingdom: Second-Generation Parents' Views and Experiences on Heritage Language Transmission; Indian Diaspora in New Zealand: History, Identity and Cultural Landscapes; The Chishtiyya Diaspora-An Expanding Circle?; Hyderabadis Abroad: Memories of Home; Moving Beyond, Moving Ahead: Possible Paradigms for Accessing Indian Emigrant Subjectivities; Immigrants, Images and Identity: Visualising Homelands Across Borders Identity Dilemmas: Gay South Asian Men in North AmericaRe-domesticating Hindu Femininity: Legible Pasts in the Bengali American Diaspora; Romancing Religion: Neoliberal Bollywood's Gendered Visual Repertoire for a Pain-free Globalisation; Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora: Towards a Transnational Feminist Aesthetic?; Memory of Trauma in Meena Alexander's Texts; Meta-Mobilis: The Case for Polymorphous Existence in K.S. Maniam's Between Lives; Exilic Dispositions and Dougla Identity in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie (The Bridge of Life); About the Editors and Contributors; Index
This title discusses the migratory movements that have led to the formation of the Indian diaspora and to diasporic practices. It looks at the ways and means of remembering and enacting diasporic belonging and the sites and spaces where such narratives of belonging are performed.
9788132100393 (electronic bk.) 8132100395 (electronic bk.) 8178298333 (hard back) 9788178298337 (hard back) 9788132112419 (ebook) 8132112415 (ebook) (hard back)
9786611963743
196374 MIL
East Indian diaspora.
East Indians--Foreign countries.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde)--Pays étrangers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Emigration & Immigration.
East Indian diaspora.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS432.5 / .T73 2008eb
304.80954
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Thinking 'Indian Diaspora' for Our Times; 'Positioning' the Indian Diaspora: The South-east Asian Experience; Forgotten Malaysians? Indians and Malaysian Society; Indo-Fijians: Marooned without Land and Power in a South Pacific Archipelago?; Indo-Caribbean Political Leaders during the Twentieth Century; Citizenship and Dissent in Diaspora: Indian Immigrant Youth in the United States After 9/11; The Indian Diaspora in the United States of America: An Emerging Political Force? Immigration Dynamics in the Receiving State-Emerging Issues for the Indian Diaspora in the United KingdomIndian Diaspora in the United Kingdom: Second-Generation Parents' Views and Experiences on Heritage Language Transmission; Indian Diaspora in New Zealand: History, Identity and Cultural Landscapes; The Chishtiyya Diaspora-An Expanding Circle?; Hyderabadis Abroad: Memories of Home; Moving Beyond, Moving Ahead: Possible Paradigms for Accessing Indian Emigrant Subjectivities; Immigrants, Images and Identity: Visualising Homelands Across Borders Identity Dilemmas: Gay South Asian Men in North AmericaRe-domesticating Hindu Femininity: Legible Pasts in the Bengali American Diaspora; Romancing Religion: Neoliberal Bollywood's Gendered Visual Repertoire for a Pain-free Globalisation; Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora: Towards a Transnational Feminist Aesthetic?; Memory of Trauma in Meena Alexander's Texts; Meta-Mobilis: The Case for Polymorphous Existence in K.S. Maniam's Between Lives; Exilic Dispositions and Dougla Identity in Laure Moutoussamy's Passerelle de vie (The Bridge of Life); About the Editors and Contributors; Index
This title discusses the migratory movements that have led to the formation of the Indian diaspora and to diasporic practices. It looks at the ways and means of remembering and enacting diasporic belonging and the sites and spaces where such narratives of belonging are performed.
9788132100393 (electronic bk.) 8132100395 (electronic bk.) 8178298333 (hard back) 9788178298337 (hard back) 9788132112419 (ebook) 8132112415 (ebook) (hard back)
9786611963743
196374 MIL
East Indian diaspora.
East Indians--Foreign countries.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde)--Pays étrangers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Emigration & Immigration.
East Indian diaspora.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS432.5 / .T73 2008eb
304.80954