India Abroad analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947, the year of Indian independence, to the present. Across different spheres of culture--festivals, entrepreneurial enclaves, fiction, autobiography, newspapers, music, and film--migrants have created India as a way to negotiate life in the multicultural United States and Britain. Sandhya Shukla considers how Indian diaspora has become a contact zone for various formations of identity and discourses of nation. She suggests that carefully reading the production of a diasporic...
India Abroad analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947, the year of Indian independence, ...
This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North and South. In the volume s substantial introduction, the editors, an anthropologist and a historian, explain the need to move beyond the paradigm of U.S. American Studies and Latin American Studies as two distinct fields. They point out the Cold War origins of area studies, and they note how many...
This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays ...
Named 2004 Best Special Issue by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
This special issue of Radical History Review takes as its inspiration Cuban writer and revolutionary Jose Marti s famous 1891 essay Our America. Focusing on Marti s appropriation of the term America used to refer to a transnational, regional project of solidarity in Latin America and to suggest a new epistemology that challenged the ideologies underpinning U.S. imperialism Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings investigates the highly contested concept of the Americas as it has been...
Named 2004 Best Special Issue by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
This special issue of Radical History Review takes as ...
