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This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of
locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku,
implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women's
narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of
in-between space has been used differently in various cultures but
gesture prominently on the connotation of 'hanging' between worlds.
Historically, imperialism and the indentured/ 'grimit' system,
triggered dispersal of labourers to the various colonies of the
British. Of course, this was not the only cause of international
migratory processes. The partition of India and Pakistan led to
large scale migration. There was Punjabi migration to Canada.
Several Indians, particularly the Gujaratis travelled to Africa for
business reasons. South Indians travelled to the Gulf for
employment. There were migrations to East Asian countries under the
kangani system. Again, these were not the only reasons. The process
of demographic movement from South Asia, has been complex due to
innumerable push-pull factors. The subsequent generations of
migrants included the twice, thrice (and likewise) displaced
members of the diaspora. Racial denigration and Orientalist
perceptions plagued their lives. They belonged to various
ethnicities and races, inhabited marginalized spaces and strived to
acculturate in the host society. Complete cultural assimilation was
not possible, creating layered and hyphenated identities. These
intricate social processes resulted in amalgamation and
cross-pollination of cultures, inter-racial relationships and
hybridization in all terrains of culture-language, music, fashion,
cuisine and so on. Situated in this matrix was the notion of Home-a
special personal space which an individual could feel as belonging
to, very strongly. Nostalgia, loss of home, culture shock and
interracial encounters problematized this discernment of
belongingness and home. These multifarious themes have been
captured by women writers from the South Asian region and this book
looks at the various aspects related to negotiating home in their
narratives.
The South Asian women's diaspora engages in spatio-temporal
interactions and power differentials in a variety of narratives,
articulating agency, multiplicities of belonging and culturally
integrative practices, highlighting homing paradigms. The sense of
alienness in a new homeland, rather in worldwide home places,
triggers rethinking of diasporic conceptions and epistemes of
individual and group histories, personal and collective
experiences. Some of the questions that this anthology seeks to
consider are: How do women from the South Asian diaspora represent
cultural negotiations and alienness of the adopted homeland in
various narratives? What are the themes/issues they select to
portray their perceptions of foreignness? How do culture, history
and politics intervene in their portrayal of lived experiences? How
do they locate themselves in the matrix of foreignness and
diaspora? The contributors to this anthology examine narratives
depicting South Asian women, their complexly positioned voices,
gesturing at the proliferating challenges and reflecting the grim
realities of a globalized world.
Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha
explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity,
globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics,
in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha's
work offers relevant and sensitive portrayals of the members of the
diaspora community that make these films of contemporary and
enduring value, highlighting their challenges in hybridization and
acculturation in the societies they migrate to and the historical
and political exigencies that influence their everyday existence.
Contributors analyze Chadha's films in the context of cultural
milieus including multiculturalism, narration and representation,
ethnicity, literary adaptation, and intercultural negotiations,
while also exploring Chadha's own role as an auteur. Scholars of
film studies, Indian cinema, diaspora studies, sociology, and
cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.
Women's Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
sheds light on women's rights advancements in the nineteenth
century and early twentieth-century through explorations of
literature and culture from this time period. With an international
emphasis, contributors illuminate the range and diversity of
women's work as novelists, journalists, and short story writers and
analyze the New Woman phenomenon, feminist impulse, and the
diversity of the women writers. Studying writing by authors such as
Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Netta Syrett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson,
Mary Seacole, Charlotte Bronte, and Jean Rhys, the contributors
analyze women's voices and works on the subject of women's rights
and the representation of the New Woman.
The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of
the complex transitional migratory identities evident in emerging
African diasporic writings. It provides insights into the hybridity
of the migrant experience, where the migrant struggles to negotiate
new cultural spaces. It shows that while some migrants successfully
adapt and integrate into new Western locales, others exist at the
margins unable to fully negotiate cultural difference. The diaspora
becomes a space for opportunities and economic mobility, as well as
alienation and uncertainties. This illuminates the heterogeneity of
the African diasporic narrative; expanding the dialogue of the
diaspora, from one of simply loss and melancholia to
self-realization and empowerment.
The genesis of the history of British colonization in India is
often traced to traders, merchants, and the formation of the
British East India Company. While this is indisputable, what is
ignored is the creation and perpetual fueling of the steady stream
of British officers into the Indian economy that happened due to
the continuing efforts of British people and society. How did this
ensue? In the contemporary world when we talk of the transnational
terror networks we are filled with awe when we find children being
engineered to the vocation of violence. However, this was true even
of the earlier times when writers (albeit politely!) hid the
colonial ideology within their literature. The children perhaps
were tantalized by the beauties abroad, by the tigers, the rhinos,
the 'native' Rajas! The use of animal imagery was conspicuous in
such literature. This kind of narrative discourse was targeted not
only at baby patriots but also at young adults, appealing them with
adventurous stories of colonization in India. Through stories,
museums, objects; the British children were continuously bombarded
with knowledge of the colonies and its alluring bounties. These
could be obtained only if the children would study them
religiously, internalize the process of travel and looting; and
actually reach the destination to perpetuate the imperial agenda.
This book encapsulates the agenda of consciously training British
children through underscoring resources and fauna in India pursued
by the British society in the nineteenth century Victorian England.
The Postcolonial Subject in Transit presents in-depth analyses of
the complex transitional migratory identities evident in emerging
African diasporic writings. It provides insights into the hybridity
of the migrant experience, where the migrant struggles to negotiate
new cultural spaces. It shows that while some migrants successfully
adapt and integrate into new Western locales, others exist at the
margins unable to fully negotiate cultural difference. The diaspora
becomes a space for opportunities and economic mobility, as well as
alienation and uncertainties. This illuminates the heterogeneity of
the African diasporic narrative; expanding the dialogue of the
diaspora, from one of simply loss and melancholia to
self-realization and empowerment.
Women's Human Rights in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
sheds light on women's rights advancements in the nineteenth
century and early twentieth-century through explorations of
literature and culture from this time period. With an international
emphasis, contributors illuminate the range and diversity of
women's work as novelists, journalists, and short story writers and
analyze the New Woman phenomenon, feminist impulse, and the
diversity of the women writers. Studying writing by authors such as
Alice Meynell, Thomas Hardy, Netta Syrett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson,
Mary Seacole, Charlotte Bronte, and Jean Rhys, the contributors
analyze women's voices and works on the subject of women's rights
and the representation of the New Woman.
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