South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Roots and Routes

✍ Scribed by Amit Sarwal (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. 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. The author argues that a clearer notion of politics of location is required to distinguish between the different kinds of ‘dislocation’ the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. The diaspora is Australia is an under-studied topic, and this book fills a lacuna in 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Roots and Routes....Pages 1-38
South Asian Diaspora in Australia: History, Research, and Literature....Pages 39-69
An Element of Romanticization: Sensory and Spatial Locations....Pages 71-80
A Journey Through Places: Politics of Spatial Location....Pages 81-95
Real, Imagined, and Mythologized: (Re)Presentation of Lost Home....Pages 97-108
Acts of Remembering and Forgetting: Reflections Through Nostalgia....Pages 109-122
An Australian Learning Experience: Prejudice , Racism and Indifference....Pages 123-134
Another World, Another Future....Pages 135-146
Conclusion: Thoda Indian, Thoda Aussie....Pages 147-157
Back Matter....Pages 159-184

✦ Subjects

Asian Culture;Migration;Memory Studies