The Diaspora Writes Home : Subcontinental Narratives / by Jasbir Jain.
Jain, Jasbir.
2017
GN301-GN674
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Title The Diaspora Writes Home : Subcontinental Narratives / by Jasbir Jain.
Author Jain, Jasbir.
ISBN 9789811048463
9811048460
9789811048456 (print)
9811048452
9789811048470 (print)
9811048479
9789811352461 (print)
9811352461
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4846-3
Imprint Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint : Springer, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XI, 206 pages) : online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-10-4846-3 doi
Call Number GN301-GN674
Dewey Decimal Classification 306
Summary This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the questions this book asks is, 'how does the diaspora relate to their home, and what is the homeland's relationship to the diaspora as representatives of the contemporary homeland in another country?'. The last is an interesting point of discussion since the 'present' of the homeland and of the diaspora cannot be equated. The transformations that new locations have brought about as migrants have travelled through time and interacted with the politics of their settled lands--Africa, Fiji, the Caribbean Islands, the UK, the US, Canada, as well as the countries created out of British India, such as Pakistan and Bangladesh--have altered their affiliations and perspectives. This book gathers multiple dispersions of emigrant writers and artistes from South Asia across time and space to the various homelands they relate to now. The word 'write' is used in its multiplicity to refer to creative expression, as an inscription, as connectivity, and remembrance. Writing is also a representation and carries its own baggage of poetics and aesthetics, categories which need to be problematised vis-à-vis the writer and his/her emotional location.
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1. Introduction: Multiple Locations
2. Writing Home: Memory, History and Imagined Spaces
3. The Burden of Culture: Between Filiation and Affiliation
4. Geographical Dislocations and the Poetics of Exile: Ashis Gupta and Michael Ondaatje
5. Memory and Reflection in the Writing of the Diaspora
6. Writing in One's Own Language and the Grounds of Being
7. The New Parochialism: Homeland in the Writing of the Indian Diaspora
8. Out of the Colonial Cocoon? From The Mimic Men to India: A Million Mutinies Now
9. Routes of Passage: Identity, Home and Culture through Dislocations
Dabydeen, Bissoondath and the Naipaul Inheritance
10. A Bit of India: Under African Skies
11. In Search of Nationhood Across Borders
12. Mid-Air Tragedy: The Emperor Kanishka Crash
13. Call of the Homeland: The Civil War in Sri Lanka
14. Failed Hijrat? Cultural Mourning, Refugees and Muhajirs
15. The Diaspora Zeroes in on the Borders
16. The Children of Jahazi Bhai: Histories, Cultures and (Dis)Continuities
17. To India with Love: Rushdie, Ghosh and Mistry
18 Cultural Interpretations/Representations in Film of the Indian Diaspora: Nostalgia, Memory or Spoofing?
19. Overwriting Memory: The Diaspora and Its Present.

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