ISBN:
9781783482641
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 202 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Raychaudhuri, Anindya, 19XX - Homemaking
DDC:
302.1
Keywords:
Nostalgia-Cross-cultural studies
;
Nostalgia-Cross-cultural studies
;
Electronic books
;
Nostalgia
;
Radicalism
;
South Asian diaspora
;
South Asians
;
Electronic books
;
Südasiaten
;
Westliche Welt
;
Heimweh
;
Literatur
;
Kunst
;
Film
;
Alltag
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Johannes Hofer, Robert Hamilton and the Origins of a Nostalgia of the Marginalized -- Contemporary Nostalgia and Its Discontented Scholarship -- Homemaking, Domophilia and Diasporic Nostalgia -- Chapter Outline -- Notes -- 1 'Doubly Expatriated' -- Maharajah Duleep Singh: A Life of Nostalgia and Rebellion -- Nostalgia and the Legacy of Duleep Singh's Life -- Notes -- 2 A Teacher, a Factory Worker, and a 'Battered' Housewife -- 'The Wrath of the Asian': Altab Ali, Asian Dub Foundation and Claiming Tower Hamlets -- 'A Village in Punjab': Blair Peach and the Rebels of Southall -- 'Better than No Cause at All': Kiranjit Ahluwalia and the Nostalgic Communities of Sisterhood -- Notes -- 3 Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine -- Jhumpa Lahiri and the Piracy of Food -- Nostalgia and Its Discontents - The Gendered Nature of Food Production -- 'The Old Secrets Your Mother's Mothers Knew': Nostalgia for Food and a Matrilineal Inheritance -- Memories of Food -- Notes -- 4 'Straight from the Village' -- Diasporic Heterotopias -- Home and the World: Inside/Outside -- 'No Place like It': The South Asian Grocery Shop -- Space Invaders -- Food and Music - Examples of Critical Diasporic Heterotopias -- Notes -- 5 Salaam, London -- Bollywood and Nostalgia for the Future -- Nostalgia beyond Borders -- Bollywood, Nostalgia and Diasporic Dreaming -- Diasporic Nostalgia, India, Pakistan and the Male Muslim Body -- Diasporic Nostalgia and the Self-Referentiality of Bollywood -- Notes -- 6 Making Yourself at Home -- Nostalgia and the History of BBC Asian Broadcasting -- Going 'Old Skool': Nostalgia and the BBC Asian Network -- Nostalgia and Diasporic Asian Broadcasting: Psychoraag and Salaam Namaste -- Notes -- Conclusion.
