About the Book
South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Roots and Routes, analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in a liminal space, in-between two identities, two cultures, and two histories. Yet, ‘home’ remains, through acts of imagination, remembering and re-creation, an important reference point. It argues that a clearer notion of politics of location will be required to distinguish the different kinds of ‘dislocation’ the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. This book fills a lacuna in the South Asian Diaspora studies by analysing and calling upon a wide range of works in this field from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary 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 / Editor
Amit Sarwal is a Producer at SBS Hindi Radio in Melbourne, Australia. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor of RMIT University and the Founding Convenor of Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network (AIIRN). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Deakin University and has also taught as Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi. He has many books to his credit, prominent being: Salaam Bollywood (Routledge, 2016), Labels and Locations (CSP, 2015), Bollywood and its Other(s) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and Wanderings in India (Monash UP, 2012).
