Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
1 South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies......Page 10
South Asian Diasporas......Page 13
Public Culture......Page 15
Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Diaspora: Theories of the National and Transnational......Page 18
Postcolonial Critique......Page 19
Globalization......Page 22
Diaspora......Page 26
Paradigm Lost and RegainedโTransnationality, Diaspora, and Asian-American Studies......Page 31
Transnational Feminist Politics......Page 34
Queer-ing......Page 37
Summary of Chapters......Page 40
2 Between Hollywood and Bollywood......Page 42
In the Shadow of Hollywood......Page 45
Bollywood Abroad......Page 46
Nonnational Cinemas......Page 49
Emerging South Asian Diasporic Public Cultures......Page 51
Black and Asian-British Cinema or Cool Brittania......Page 59
Black Critique of the Nation......Page 61
Black Filmmaking......Page 62
Burden of Representation......Page 64
Conclusion......Page 72
3 When Indians Play Cowboys: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nairโs Mississippi Masala......Page 76
Race, Gender, and Sexuality: The Family Romance of the Postcolonial Nation......Page 83
Multicultural Gendered Resolutions: Domesticating the Transnational......Page 88
Multiculturalism and Hollywood......Page 92
Travel, Nomadism, and Westward Wandering......Page 95
4 Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishnaโs Masala......Page 105
Camp as Disidentification Strategy......Page 109
Diasporic Spectatorship......Page 115
Diasporic Chronotopes: Planes and Houses......Page 122
Contesting Narration: Sikh Diaspora and the Necessity of a Homeland......Page 127
Conclusion......Page 133
Bollywood and Diasporic Nostalgia......Page 135
British Asian Representation of Diasporic Women......Page 139
Embodiment......Page 141
Nostalgia......Page 142
Homesickness IโDis-Orientation......Page 145
Homesickness IIโDomestic Abuse......Page 148
Motion Sickness......Page 152
Conclusion......Page 157
6 Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta โs Fire......Page 159
Text......Page 162
Configuring Heteronormativity through Tradition and Modernity......Page 165
Western Discourses......Page 174
Hindutva and Liberal Responses......Page 176
Deepa Mehta......Page 183
Lesbian Activism......Page 186
Diasporic Responses......Page 187
Conclusion......Page 189
7 Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational. and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English......Page 191
New Wave Cinema......Page 193
Sexual Orient-ations......Page 202
Conclusion......Page 206
8 Conclusion: Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires......Page 208
Bollywood Wedding FilmsโThe Return of the Bourgeoisie......Page 213
Universal Heterosexuality, Cultural Difference, and Nostalgia......Page 216
Sexual Agency......Page 220
Conclusion......Page 225
Notes......Page 227
Bibliography......Page 253
Filmography......Page 270
Index......Page 280