South Asian Transnationalisms : Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780415556187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str.

Babli Sinha;Boria Majumdar

Opis

South Asian Transnationalisms unites scholars from across the United States to explore encounters in the "contact zone" of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery and colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with colleagues in the United States, continental Europe, Africa, and East Asia, the contributors interrogate the relationships between identity and agency, language and space, race and empire, nation and ethnicity, and diaspora and nationality. This book deploys transnational syntaxes, such as cinema, painting, and travel writing, to reflect on changes in society, technology, and politics. Conceiving of the transnational as neither liberatory nor necessarily hegemonic, this book seeks to explore the contradictions, opportunities, disjunctures, and exclusions of the vexed relationship between the local and the global in South Asia.

This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Babli Sinha  2. Tropical longing: the quest for India in the early twentieth-century Caribbean  Lisa Outar  3. A productive distance from the nation: Uday Shankar and the defining of Indian modern dance  Nilanjana Bhattacharjya  4. Transnational resistance and fictive truths: Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and the Indian nationalist movement  Purnima Bose  5. Colonial encounters between India and Indonesia  Martin Ramstedt  6. Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India  Babli Sinha  7. The eternal return and overcoming ‘Cape Fear’: science, sensation, Superman and Hindu nationalism in recent Hindi cinema  Anustup Basu  8. Ur-national and secular mythologies: popular culture, nationalist historiography and strategic essentialism  Rini Bhattacharya Mehta  9. Visual culture and violence: inventing intimacy and citizenship in recent South Asian cinema  Kavita Daiya

O autorze

Babli Sinha is assistant professor of English and director of Media Studies at Kalamazoo College, USA. She is the author of 'Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj' (forthcoming, Routledge).