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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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments / Preface / Introduction - "Ich Will Heim": Nostalgia and the Radical Possibilities of Homemaking / Chapter 1 - "Doubly Expatriated": Duleep Singh and the Politics of Nostalgia / Chapter 2 - A Teacher, a Factory-Worker, and a "Battered" Housewife: Rebellious Nostalgias, Nostalgias of Rebellion / Chapter 3 - Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine: Food, Foodscapes and Nostalgia / Chapter 4 - "Straight from the Village": Diasporic Public Spaces and the Heterotopias of Nostalgia / Chapter 5 - Salaam, London: Bollywood, Wish Fulfilment, and the Fictive Geographies of the Diaspora / Chapter 6 - Making Yourself at Home: Homemaking and Diasporic Asian Broadcasting / Conclusion - Going Back Home: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards. / Bibliography

About the author

Anindya Raychaudhuri is a Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include postcolonial and diasporic identities and cultures, cultural representation and collective memory of war and conflict, critical theory and Marxism. In 2016, he was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anindya Raychaudhuri, Raychaudhuri Anindya
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781783482627
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-262-7
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics; Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Colonialism & imperialism, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Literature: history & criticism, Human Geography