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Zusatztext The idea of nostalgia is interrogated and offered in terms of a critical hermeneutics across actual and imagined places where fiction! cinema! foodscapes! cultural geographies and other popular cultures across Britain and South Asia interact. In doing so! a rich set of examples are offered to illuminate the diasporic condition as transformative! complex and one that we can all learn from. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

Product details

• Authors: Anindya Raychaudhuri, Raychaudhuri Anindya
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781783482634
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-263-4
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Philosophie, Asien, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Medienwissenschaften, Media Studies, History of Ideas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Politik und Staat, Humangeographie, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Literature: history & criticism, Human Geography