Author: Makarand Paranjape
Editor: Makarand Paranjape
Publisher: Indialog Publications
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 350
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187981067
Description
Over the last twenty years or so, Indian diaspora has suddenly come of age. Shedding its minority status, it has demonstrated its inclination for becoming a majority, not in the sense of numerical superiority, but of growing up, maturing, attaining self-apprehension and self-expression.
Over the last twenty years or so, Indian diaspora has suddenly come of age. Shedding its minority status, it has demonstrated its inclination for becoming a majority, not in the sense of numerical superiority, but of growing up, maturing, attaining self-apprehension and self-expression. It can now look at itself, the host country, and the homeland, with a critical humor that has not necessarily dulled its passion or lessened the intensity of its engagement. Moreover, the Indian diaspora has become an important economic force, whose reputed net worth exceeds hundreds of billions of dollars. It is, at once, more mobile and cohesive than ever before, what with faster means of travel and communication. Not only has the old diaspora made inroads into the new, but the access of all the scattered peoples of Indian origin to India, the motherland, has also increased dramatically. Now, it actually seems as if this diaspora has an unprecedented ascendancy and leverage both in the host country and the homeland.
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION - MAKARAND PARANJAPE
That Third Space: Interrogating the Diasporic Paradigm - K. Satchidanandan
Diasporas and the Art of Impossible Mourning - Vijay Mishra
Diaspora and its Discontents - Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
Gandhi and the Diaspora Question: Histories, Texts and Readings - Sudhir Kumar
The New Parochialism: Homeland in the Writing of the Indian Diaspora - Jasbir Jain
Between History and Culture Politics: Reflections on Punjabi Writing of the Diaspora - Manjit Inder Singh
Producing (Un)homely Spaces: Gender Differences, Gujarati Culture, and the South Asian Diaspora - Pratyusha Basu
Survival as an Ethic: South Asian Immigrant Women's Writing - C. Vijayasree
Dangling Men, Nowhere Women: The identity Crisis of South Asian Queers - R. Raj Rao
Writing South Asian-Canandian Diaspora: Amriika Ideology - Alka Kumar & Harish Narang
One Foot in Canada and Couple of toes in India: Diasporas and Homelands in South Asian Canadian Experience - Makarand Paranjape
Reimagining the Homeland in South Asian America - Henry Schwarz
The Politics of History on the Internet: Cyber-Diasporic Hinduism and the North American Hindu Diaspora - Vinay Lal
The Digital Diaspora: South Asians in the New Pax Electronica - Deepika Bahri
Footnoting History: The Diasporic Imagination of Amitav Ghosh - Brinda Bose
Indo-Malaysians: Suspended Identities or Citizens of a New Selfdom - Shanthini Pillai
Just Clothes and Ideas?: Diasporic Awareness in K.S. Maniam's Fiction - Susanna Checketts
Writing from the Fringe of a Multi-Cultural Society - K.S. Maniam
Contextualizing Diasporic Locations
in Deepa Mehta's Fire and Srinivas Krishna's Masala - Uma Parameswaran
The Adventure of Indenture: A Diasporic Identity - Satendra Nandan
The Feudal Post-colonial: The Fiji Crisis - Vijay Mishra
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX