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Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive
nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What
might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance
might it have? Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction
of a South Asian Diaspora examines diasporic life in south Asian
communities in Europe, North America and Australia, to map the ways
in which members of these communities use nostalgia to construct
distinctive identities. Using a series of examples from literature,
cinema, visual art, music, computer games, mainstream media,
physical and virtual spaces and many other cultural objects, this
book argues that it is possible, and necessary, to read this
nostalgia as helping to create a powerful notion of home that can
help to transcend international relations of empire and capital,
and create instead a pan-national space of belonging. This
homemaking represents the persistent search for somewhere to belong
on one's own terms. Constructed through word, image and music,
preserved through dreams and imagination, the home provides
sustenance in the continuing struggle to change the present and the
future for the better.
How can we theorise partitions differently? How are new identities,
moralities, polities and life constructed post-partition? How are
gender and sexuality recalibrated after partition? How can violence
be theorised? What is the relationship between identity in the
diaspora and identity after partition? What is the relationship
between the movement of capital and national borders that is the
mark of partition? Partitions and their Afterlives engages with
political partitions and how their aftermath affects the
contemporary life of nations and their citizens. Using a
comparative perspective, the essays seek to stretch our
understanding of these conflicts and to show how elements of our
day-to-day lives have been shaped by them. In juxtaposing the
various partitions in a single volume the book contributes to
debates on citizenship, collective memory, nation-building, and
borders and boundaries. Such a focus also reveals how local
communities as well as nations use their knowledge of the past and
history. This ground-breaking multi-disciplinary and multi-region
volume will analyse the various convergences and departures between
the different partitions and draw out lessons for the present. In
so doing, this work will also examine methodological challenges and
the imperatives for scholars working on individual countries.
How can we theorise partitions differently? How are new identities,
moralities, polities and life constructed post-partition? How are
gender and sexuality recalibrated after partition? How can violence
be theorised? What is the relationship between identity in the
diaspora and identity after partition? What is the relationship
between the movement of capital and national borders that is the
mark of partition? Partitions and their Afterlives engages with
political partitions and how their aftermath affects the
contemporary life of nations and their citizens. Using a
comparative perspective, the essays seek to stretch our
understanding of these conflicts and to show how elements of our
day-to-day lives have been shaped by them. In juxtaposing the
various partitions in a single volume the book contributes to
debates on citizenship, collective memory, nation-building, and
borders and boundaries. Such a focus also reveals how local
communities as well as nations use their knowledge of the past and
history. This ground-breaking multi-disciplinary and multi-region
volume will analyse the various convergences and departures between
the different partitions and draw out lessons for the present. In
so doing, this work will also examine methodological challenges and
the imperatives for scholars working on individual countries.
Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive
nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What
might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance
might it have? Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction
of a South Asian Diaspora examines diasporic life in south Asian
communities in Europe, North America and Australia, to map the ways
in which members of these communities use nostalgia to construct
distinctive identities. Using a series of examples from literature,
cinema, visual art, music, computer games, mainstream media,
physical and virtual spaces and many other cultural objects, this
book argues that it is possible, and necessary, to read this
nostalgia as helping to create a powerful notion of home that can
help to transcend international relations of empire and capital,
and create instead a pan-national space of belonging. This
homemaking represents the persistent search for somewhere to belong
on one's own terms. Constructed through word, image and music,
preserved through dreams and imagination, the home provides
sustenance in the continuing struggle to change the present and the
future for the better.
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