Homemaking : radical nostalgia and the construction of a South Asian diaspora /

Explores the impact of nostalgia on the construction of individual and collective identity for diasporic South-Asians in the UK and US. It argues that in the postcolonial context the affect produced by this nostalgia can have radical potential as a form of resistance.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Raychaudhuri, Anindya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]
Series:Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics.
Subjects:
South Asians > Foreign countries.
South Asians > Great Britain.
South Asians > United States.
South Asians > Ethnic identity.
South Asian diaspora.
Nostalgia > Political aspects.
Radicalism.
Sud-Asiatiques > Pays étrangers.
Sud-Asiatiques > États-Unis.
Sud-Asiatiques > Identité ethnique.
Nostalgie > Aspect politique.
Radicalisme.
radicalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
South Asians > Ethnic identity
South Asians
South Asian diaspora
Nostalgia > Political aspects
Asian diaspora
Nostalgia
Radicalism
United States
Great Britain
South Asia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Johannes Hofer, Robert Hamilton and the Origins of a Nostalgia of the Marginalized; Contemporary Nostalgia and Its Discontented Scholarship; Homemaking, Domophilia and Diasporic Nostalgia; Chapter Outline; Notes; 1 'Doubly Expatriated'; Maharajah Duleep Singh: A Life of Nostalgia and Rebellion; Nostalgia and the Legacy of Duleep Singh's Life; Notes; 2 A Teacher, a Factory Worker, and a 'Battered' Housewife; 'The Wrath of the Asian': Altab Ali, Asian Dub Foundation and Claiming Tower Hamlets
  • 'A Village in Punjab': Blair Peach and the Rebels of Southall'Better than No Cause at All': Kiranjit Ahluwalia and the Nostalgic Communities of Sisterhood; Notes; 3 Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine; Jhumpa Lahiri and the Piracy of Food; Nostalgia and Its Discontents
  • The Gendered Nature of Food Production; 'The Old Secrets Your Mother's Mothers Knew': Nostalgia for Food and a Matrilineal Inheritance; Memories of Food; Notes; 4 'Straight from the Village'; Diasporic Heterotopias; Home and the World: Inside/Outside; 'No Place like It': The South Asian Grocery Shop; Space Invaders
  • Food and Music
  • Examples of Critical Diasporic HeterotopiasNotes; 5 Salaam, London; Bollywood and Nostalgia for the Future; Nostalgia beyond Borders; Bollywood, Nostalgia and Diasporic Dreaming; Diasporic Nostalgia, India, Pakistan and the Male Muslim Body; Diasporic Nostalgia and the Self-Referentiality of Bollywood; Notes; 6 Making Yourself at Home; Nostalgia and the History of BBC Asian Broadcasting; Going 'Old Skool': Nostalgia and the BBC Asian Network; Nostalgia and Diasporic Asian Broadcasting: Psychoraag and Salaam Namaste; Notes; Conclusion
  • 'The Return of the Prodigal': Nostalgic Returnings in Anil's Ghost and The Hungry TideA Radical Hermeneutics of Nostalgia; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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