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South Asian Transnationalisms : Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century.
South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United Stat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | South Asian history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Tropical longing: the quest for India in the early twentieth-century Caribbean; 3. A productive distance from the nation: Uday Shankar and the defining of Indian modern dance; 4. Transnational resistance and fictive truths: Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and the Indian nationalist movement; 5. Colonial encounters between India and Indonesia; 6. Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India.
- 7. The eternal return and overcoming 'Cape Fear': science, sensation, Superman and Hindu nationalism in recent Hindi cinema8. Ur-national and secular mythologies: popular culture, nationalist historiography and strategic essentialism; 9. Visual culture and violence: inventing intimacy and citizenship in recent South Asian cinema; Index.