Homelands and Diasporas: readings
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Felicity Hand, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Ali, Monica, Brick Lane, London: Doubleday, 2003.
Ballard, Roger (ed), Desh Pardesh: The South Asian Presence in Britain, London: Hurst & Company, 1994. Extracts.
Brah, Avtar, Cartographies of Diaspora. Contesting Identities, London: Routledge,1996. Extracts.
Chauhan, P.S. “V.S. Naipaul: History as Cosmic Irony” in Nelson, Emmanuel S. (ed), Reworlding. The Literature of the Indian Diaspora, Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Clifford, James, “Diasporas”, Cultural Anthropology, 9, 3, 1994, pp.302-38.
Desai, Jigna, “When Indians Play Cowboys: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala” in Beyond Bollywood. The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film, Routledge, 2004.
Ganguly, Keya, “Migrant Identities: Personal Memory and the Construction of Selfhood”, Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, Nº 1, January 1992: 27-50.
Hand, Felicity, “Forget India, We’re British” in Firth, Kathleen & Hand, Felicity (eds), India: Fifty Years After Independence. Images in Literature, Film and the Media, Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2001.
Hand, Felicity, “Shaking off Sharam: the Double Burden of British Asian Women”, in On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain. Ed. Fernando Galván & Mercedes Bengoechea, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá, 1999, pp.133-138
Lessinger, Johanna, “Indian Immigrants in the United States. The Emergence of a Transnational Population” in Parekh, Bhikhu, Singh, Gurharpal & Vertovec, Steven (eds), Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora, Routledge, 2003.
Maharaj, Brij, “Comparative Reflections on the Indian Diaspora: Historical and Recent Perspectives” in Varma, Sushma J. & Seshan, Radhika (eds), Fractured Identity. The Indian Diaspora in Canada, New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2003.
Mishra, Vijay, “Diasporas and the Art of Impossible Mourning” in Paranjape, Makarand (ed), In Diaspora. Theories, Histories, Texts, New Delhi: Indialog Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2001: 24-51.
Mishra, Vijay, “The Diasporic Imaginary: Theorizing the Indian Diaspora”, Textual Practice, 10, Nº 3, 1996:421-447.
Mishra, Vijay, Bollywood Cinema. Temples of Desire, Routledge, 2002. Extracts.
Mishra, Vijay, “The Diasporic Imaginary: Theorizing the Indian Diaspora”, Textual Practice, 10, Nº 3, 1996:421-447.
Mishra, Vijay, Bollywood Cinema. Temples of Desire, Routledge, 2002. Extracts.
Naipaul, V.S. The Mystic Masseur, Penguin, [1957] 2001.
Parekh, Bhiku, “South Asians in Britain”, History Today, September 1997: 65-68.
Rayaprol, Aparna, “’Can You Talk Indian?’ Shifting Notions of Community and Identity in the Indian Diaspora” in Surinder S. Jodhka (ed), Community and Identities. Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001: 163-190.
Simatei, Tirop Peter, “The Asian Question” in The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa, Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies, 2001.
Tinker, Hugh, The Banyan Tree: Overseas Emigrants from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, London: Oxford University Press, 1977. Extracts.
Van der Veer, Peter, “The Diasporic Imagination”, introduction to Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora, ed. Van der Veer, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995: 1-16.
Van Hear, N. New Diasporas, London: University College of London, 1998. Extracts.
Vassanji, M.G., The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2005.
