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Shaping Indian Diaspora examines the cultural and social practices and the artistic manifestations of the Indian diaspora around the world. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors highlight the intersections of diaspora and artistic production.
List of contents
Introduction: Shaping Indian Diaspora, or the Instability of Human Morphoses, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and Veena Dwivedi
Part I. Home Diaspora after Indian Partition
Chapter 1: Stories of Hasan Azizul Huq and the Shaping of Indian Diaspora in post-Partition India, M. Rakibul Hasan Khan
Part II. Great Britain and Scotland
Chapter 2: "Seeing Through a Glass": Diasporic Identity in Vikram Seth's Two Lives, Mélanie Heydari
Chapter 3: Roots and Routes in Meera Syal's Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Mounir Guirat
Chapter 4: Indo-Scottish Cultural Flows: Bashabi Fraser and the Streams of Identity, Carla Rodríguez González
Part III. United States of America
Chapter 5: Rice and Fish: Food Rituals and Women in Lahiri's The Namesake and Divakaruni's The Vine of Desire, Paromita Deb
Chapter 6: The Ebb and Flow of Homecoming-The Nature of Diasporic Existence in The Hungry Tide, Kinga Földváry
Chapter 7: Historicizing Diaspora, Multiculturalism, and Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke, Julia Hoydis
Part IV. Canada
Chapter 8: Diaspora Identity in Kim and The Cat's Table, Judith Caesar
Part V. Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 9: Alternative Literary Spaces: India in the Antipodes, Alejandra Moreno Álvarez
Chapter 10: Outside, Inside, and Somewhere In Between: Laughter and the Indian Diasporic Experience in A House for Mr Biswas and The White Tiger, Adele Holoch
Part VI. Bollywood and Diaspora
Chapter 11: Little Indias: Diasporic Communities in the US and the Consumption of Bollywood, Keith M. Corson
About the author
Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is associate professor in the Department of English and German at the University of Córdoba.
Veena Dwivedi is assistant professor of English at Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Summary
Shaping Indian Diaspora examines the cultural and social practices and the artistic manifestations of the Indian diaspora around the world. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors highlight the intersections of diaspora and artistic production.
