South Asian Diaspora Narratives

Book Details

• Author: Amit Sarwal

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: 2016

• ISBN: 9788131607909

• Pages: 272

• Cover: Hardcover

About the Book

South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Roots and Routes delves into the metaphysical and poetical processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’. These diasporic narratives are often marked by dislocated identities, existing in the liminal space between two identities, cultures, and histories. Despite the dislocation, the notion of ‘home’ remains central through acts of imagination, memory, and re-creation, creating a crucial reference point for the diasporic individual.

This book highlights the need for a clearer understanding of the politics of location to differentiate the various forms of dislocation immigrants face, both psychologically and sociologically. By incorporating a wide range of works from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary studies, this volume fills an essential gap in South Asian Diaspora studies.

Contents

1. South Asian Diaspora in Australia: History, Research, and Literature

2. An Element of Romanticization: Sensory and Spatial Locations

3. A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location

4. Real, Imagined, and Mythologized: (Re)Presentation of Lost Home

5. Acts of Remembering and Forgetting: Reflections through Nostalgia

6. An Australian Learning Experience: Prejudice, Racism, and Indifference

7. Another World, Another Future

8. Conclusion: Thoda Indian, Thoda Aussie

About the Author

Amit Sarwal is a Producer at SBS Hindi Radio in Melbourne, Australia, and an Honorary Associate Professor at RMIT University. He is the Founding Convenor of the Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network (AIIRN). Sarwal has held a postdoctoral fellowship at Deakin University and taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi. He has authored several books, including:

• Salaam Bollywood (Routledge, 2016)

• Labels and Locations (CSP, 2015)

• Bollywood and its Other(s) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

• Wanderings in India (Monash UP, 2012)