Shaping Indian Diaspora : Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption Away From the Desi

The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia, with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community from disparate regions, languages, cultural heritages, religions, and traditions within the subcontinent. The many peoples of the Indian diaspora have growing social and economic impacts on their new homes, but maintain their cultural bonds with India. This volume offers a thorough analysis of the diasporic practices of the Indian communities in essays covering a number of fields, such as literature, cultural studies, and film studies. The contributors deal with the Indian diaspora’s historical and contemporary connotations, its theoretical framework, the cultural hybridizations that emerge from diaspora, and other topics touching on the cultural and social effects of the spread of Indian peoples around the globe. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction I: Home Diaspora after Indian Partition Chapter One: Stories of Hasan Azizul Huq and the Shaping of Indian Diaspora in post-Partition India II: Great Britain and Scotland Chapter Two: “Seeing through a Glass” Chapter Three: Roots and Routes in Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee Chapter Four: Indo-Scottish Cultural Flows III: United States of America Chapter Five: Rice and Fish Chapter Six: The Ebb and Flow of Homecoming Chapter Seven: Historicizing Diaspora, Multiculturalism, and Migration in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke IV: Canada Chapter Eight: Diaspora Identity in Kim and The Cat’s Table V: Australia and New Zealand Chapter Nine: Alternative Literary Spaces Chapter Ten: Outside, Inside, and Somewhere In Between VI: Bollywood and Diaspora Chapter Eleven: Little Indias: Diasporic Communities in the US and the Consumption of Bollywood Index About the Contributors 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.