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Informationen zum Autor Babli Sinha is assistant professor of English and director of Media Studies at Kalamazoo College! USA. She is the author of 'Cinema! Transnationalism! and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj' (forthcoming! Routledge). Klappentext Unites scholars from across the United States to explore encounters in the 'contact zone' of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery and colonizer and colonized. Zusammenfassung South Asian Transnationalisms unites scholars from across the United States to explore encounters in the "contact zone" of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery and colonizer and colonized. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Babli Sinha 2. Tropical longing: the quest for India in the early twentieth-century Caribbean Lisa Outar 3. A productive distance from the nation: Uday Shankar and the defining of Indian modern dance Nilanjana Bhattacharjya 4. Transnational resistance and fictive truths: Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and the Indian nationalist movement Purnima Bose 5. Colonial encounters between India and Indonesia Martin Ramstedt 6. Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India Babli Sinha 7. The eternal return and overcoming ‘Cape Fear’: science, sensation, Superman and Hindu nationalism in recent Hindi cinema Anustup Basu 8. Ur-national and secular mythologies: popular culture, nationalist historiography and strategic essentialism Rini Bhattacharya Mehta 9. Visual culture and violence: inventing intimacy and citizenship in recent South Asian cinema Kavita Daiya
