Alison Blunt

Domicile and Diaspora (eBook, ePUB)

Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home

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Produktbeschreibung

Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. * The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. * The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent. * Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. * Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. * Makes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444399189
• Artikelnr.: 38308417

Autorenporträt

Alison Blunt is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Travel, Gender and Imperialism (1994), the co-author of Dissident Geographies (2000), and the co-editor of Writing Women and Space (1994), Postcolonial Geographies (2002) and Cultural Geography in Practice (2003). She was awarded the Gill Memorial Award by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers in 2002 and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.
Series Editors' Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1 Domicile and Diaspora: An Introduction.
Domicile.
Diaspora.
Home, Memory and Nostalgia.
Methodology.
Chapter Outline.
2 At Home in British India: Imperial Domesticity and National Identity.
Imperial Domesticity.
Nationalist Domesticity.
Domicile and Domesticity.
'Land of our Mothers'.
Home, Identity and Nationality.
Conclusions.
3 Home, Community and Nation: Domesticating Identity and Embodying
Modernity.
Domesticating Identity.
Embodying Modernity.
Domestic Transgression.
Home, Community and Nation.
Conclusions.
4 Colonization and Settlement: Anglo-Indian Homelands.
Homelands and Settlements.
Anglo-Indian Colonization and Settlement.
Colonizing McCluskieganj.
Anglo-Indian Home-making.
Dreams of the Future.
McCluskieganj Today.
Conclusions.
5 Independence and Decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain.
Migration and Resettlement.
Britishness, Whiteness and Mixed Descent.
Documenting Paternity and Recolonizing Identity.
Unsettled Domesticity.
Embodied Identities and the Limits of Familiarity.
Conclusions.
6 Mixed Descent, Migration and Multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia
since 1947.
Anglo-Indians in White Australia.
HMAS Manoora.
Anglo-Indian Migration in the Wake of HMAS Manoora.
From 'Race' to 'Culture'.
From White Australia to Multiculturalism.
Anglo-Indians in Multicultural Australia.
Conclusions.
7 At Home in Independent India: Post-Imperial Domesticity and National
Identity.
Staying on in India.
Nationality and Community.
Anglo-Indian Women in Independent India.
Dress.
Home and Work.
Marriage.
Conclusions.
8 Domicile and Diaspora: Conclusions.
Bibliography.
Appendix 1 Archival Sources.
Appendix 2 Interviews and Focus Groups.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index

Rezensionen

'This is a first rate book. Alison Blunt studies a communitythat has been reinventing 'itself', and its senses ofhome and belonging, in the period since 1947. She shows how thesereinventions have been pursued in different ways by differentcommunity leaders, including in the run-up to India'sindependence, and how another set of reinventions is playing outaround the dress and marriage choices of Anglo-Indianwomen.'
Stuart Corbridge, Professor/Doctor Geography & RegionalStudies, London School of Economics

'Alison Blunt has defined and shaped this research area.Perceptive accounts of Anglo-Indian women's lives are woven througha scholarly analysis of community and identity in India and a widerdiaspora through the twentieth century. She has produced anabsorbing and refreshing book.'
Morag Bell, Professor of Cultural Geography, LoughboroughUniversity

"This is an accessible and clearly written book and would beuseful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses oncultural and postcolonial geographies"
The Geographical Journal

"Alison Blunt's latest offering Domicile and Diaspora:Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home provides arich and flavourful repast of the betwixt and in-between people ofpart-British and part-Indian descent... Blunt delivers a cogent,deeply historicized, and creatively theorized account of thecultural and spatial contours of Anglo-Indian domesticity."
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