SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORIC CINEMA AND THEATRE: Re-visiting Screen and Stage in the New Millennium
Ajay K. Chaubey and Ashvin I. Devasundaram (eds)
SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORIC CINEMA AND THEATRE: Re-visiting Screen and Stage in the New Millennium
Ajay K. Chaubey and Ashvin I. Devasundaram (eds)
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ISBN9788131609071
Publication Year2017
Pages360 pages
BindingHardback
Sale TerritoryWorld
About the Book
This volume contains seventeen path-breaking essays by Indian, European, Indo-Scottish, and Indo-American scholars. It seeks to affirm heterogeneity and difference, celebrating multi-dimensional modes of looking at South Asian diasporic cinema and theatre in the new millennium. The essays in the anthology engage in critical conversations around diverse themes—from ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ in Afghan Cinema, to the Partition of India. This co-mingling of multiple voices articulates the new, topical and sometimes radical dimensions of contemporary South Asian film and drama. In essence, the credo of this compendium is to breach extant disciplinary boundaries and establish a stimulating and thought-provoking rapport with its readers. With a polyvocality stemming from its panoply of eminent international contributors, this volume acts as a bridge, dissolving borders and addressing often-specious cultural pre-conceptions. It forges a cultural studies causeway across the largely reductionist duality of South Asian ‘diasporic’ and ‘domiciled’ visual arts. It is expected that this anthology, arguably the first of its kind, will be useful to both research students and academicians around the world.
Contributors
Ajay K. Chaubey
Ashvin I. Devasundaram
Ana Cristina Mendes
Anindya Raychaudhuri
D. Sudha Rani.
E. Anna Claydon
Irum Alvi
M.M.K. Sardana
Manjinder Kaur Wratch
Nandi Bhatia
Neilesh Bose
Pragya Shukla
Priyam Basu Thakur
Rajesh James
Rekha Sharma
Sanjena Sathian
Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Subrata Kumar Das
Contents
South Asian Diasporic Cinema and Theatre: A Critical Introduction / Ajay K. Chaubey and Ashvin I. Devasundaram
Section A: Filming South Asian Diaspora: Critical Essays in the New Millennium
1. Gender and Nation in the South Asian Diaspora: Transnational Cultural Spaces in Bollywood Cinema / Sanjena Sathian
2. Desi Films: Articulating Images of South Asian Identity in a Global Communication Environment / Rekha Sharma
3. British South Asian Cinema and Identity–I: Nostalgia in the Contemporary British Cinema and the South Asian Diaspora / E. Anna Claydon
4. British South Asian Cinema and Identity–II: Representing America in the films of Gurinder Chadha / E. Anna Claydon
5. Bride and Prejudice and the (Post-) National Cinema Debate / Ana Cristina Mendes
6. Hanif Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic: Anxiety in Assimilation / Pragya Shukla
7. Afghan Diaspora and Diasporic Spaces in the Cinematic Landscape of Afghanistan and Iran / Irum Alvi
Section B: Typology of Indian Cinema: An Accentuated Journey of Hundred Years
8. Bollywood on the Wings of Technology and Its Contribution to Economy: Hundredth Year of Indian Cinema / M.M.K. Sardana
9. Bollywood Dreams Hand-in-Hand with the Canadian Movie Business: Interplay of Diasporic Cinema with Emotions, Creativity and Money / Shilpa Daithota Bhat
10. Subalterns’ Voices through ‘Accented Cinema(s)’: A Study of Deepa Mehta’s Fire and Water / Subrata Kumar Das
11. Queer Tropes in Post 1990s Malayalam Cinema / Rajesh James
Section C: Theatricality of South Asian Diasporic/Indian Theatre: A Critical Reception
12. Diasporic Activism and the Mediations of ‘Home’: South Asian Voices in Canadian Drama / Nandi Bhatia
13. Sharuk and Shylock: The Creation of a South Asian American Aesthetic / Neilesh Bose
14. South Asian Diasporic Theatre: A Critical Overview / D. Sudha Rani
15. Theatre for Development in Indian Context: An Introspection / Priyam Basu Thakur
Section D: Partitoned Lives in Cinema and Theatre: Recent Perspectives
16. Partitioned Lives and the Cinematic Quest for Redressal / Manjinder Kaur Wratch
17. ‘Do They Want to Turn Partition into a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera?’: Performing Partition as Uncanny Farce / Anindya Raychaudhuri
About the Author / Editor
Ajay K. Chaubey is Assistant Professor in English at the Department of Sciences and Humanities, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand. Prior to this, Ajay has shared his knowledge and experience in the premier institutions of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and New Delhi. His major publications include the volumes on V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie followed by two other volumes on the literature of the Indian Diaspora. Ajay loves to travel extensively and this devouring desire impelled him to attend, partake and present research papers in conferences, symposia and workshops held in India and England. He is a Life Member of the academic organizations, viz. IACLALS, AESI and Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, among others.
Ashvin I. Devasundaram is Lecturer in World Cinema at Queen Mary University of London. He is Programming Adviser to the London Asian Film Festival (LAFF), Creative Director of the Edinburgh Asian Film Festival (EAFF), and a BBC Academy Expert Voice in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts. His most recent publication include India’s New Independent Cinema: Rise of the Hybrid (Routledge, 2016). He is on the Editorial Board of peer-reviewed The South Asianist, Journal of South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh. Ashvin is also on the Advisory Panel for BFI India on Film – a major initiative charting India’s cinema heritage and history – part of the UK–India Year of Culture 2017.
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