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1 online resource |
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Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics |
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Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics.
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Contents |
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 |
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'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 |
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Food and Music -- Examples of Critical Diasporic HeterotopiasNotes; 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 |
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'The Return of the Prodigal': Nostalgic Returnings in Anil's Ghost and The Hungry TideA Radical Hermeneutics of Nostalgia; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
Subject |
South Asians -- Foreign countries
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South Asians -- Great Britain.
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South Asians -- United States.
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South Asian diaspora.
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Nostalgia -- Political aspects
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South Asians -- Ethnic identity
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Radicalism.
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radicalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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South Asians -- Ethnic identity.
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South Asians.
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South Asian diaspora.
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Nostalgia -- Political aspects.
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Asian diaspora.
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Nostalgia.
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Radicalism.
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United States.
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Great Britain.
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South Asia.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2018055591 |
ISBN |
9781783482641 |
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1783482648 |
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