Anindya Raychaudhuri

Homemaking

Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781783482634
• ISBN-10: 178348263X
• Artikelnr.: 42812696

Autorenporträt

Anindya Raychaudhuri is a Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include postcolonial and diasporic identities and cultures, cultural representation and collective memory of war and conflict, critical theory and Marxism. In 2016, he was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments / Preface / Introduction
"Ich Will Heim": Nostalgia and the Radical Possibilities of Homemaking / Chapter 1
"Doubly Expatriated": Duleep Singh and the Politics of Nostalgia / Chapter 2
A Teacher, a Factory
Worker, and a "Battered" Housewife: Rebellious Nostalgias, Nostalgias of Rebellion / Chapter 3
Aloo
gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine: Food, Foodscapes and Nostalgia / Chapter 4
"Straight from the Village": Diasporic Public Spaces and the Heterotopias of Nostalgia / Chapter 5
Salaam, London: Bollywood, Wish Fulfilment, and the Fictive Geographies of the Diaspora / Chapter 6
Making Yourself at Home: Homemaking and Diasporic Asian Broadcasting / Conclusion
Going Back Home: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards. / Bibliography