Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations

Shilpa Daithota Bhat

doi:10.5771/9781666912869

Summary

Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha’s work offers relevant and sensitive portrayals of the members of the diaspora community that make these films of contemporary and enduring value, highlighting their challenges in hybridization and acculturation in the societies they migrate to and the historical and political exigencies that influence their everyday existence. Contributors analyze Chadha’s films in the context of cultural milieus including multiculturalism, narration and representation, ethnicity, literary adaptation, and intercultural negotiations, while also exploring Chadha’s own role as an auteur. Scholars of film studies, Indian cinema, diaspora studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1285-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1286-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 238
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Structure of This Book No access
2. Conclusion No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Auteur Theory and Robert Stam’s Intertextual Studies Based on Dialogism No access
  3. The Mistress of Spices: The Novel No access
  4. Gurinder Chadha as an Auteur No access
  5. The Mistress of Spices: The Script No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Gurinder Chadha: Queen of the “Multi” No access
  2. Ways to Bend a Multicultural Diaspora No access
  3. Cartographies of London towards a Multicultural Hope No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Interrogating Brit-Asian Identity: Gurinder Chadha’s Early Documentaries No access
  2. “What Is There in America? Something to See, Perhaps?”: Mira Nair’s So Far from India No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Cultural Legacies of Imperialism No access
  2. Gurinder Chadha on Being Brown and British No access
  3. An Examination of Bride and Prejudice No access
  4. The Pleasure of Exile and the Viceroy’s House No access
  5. A Closer Discussion of the Viceroy’s House and Swaraj No access
  6. Viceroy’s House, Bride and Prejudice, and History No access
  7. Imperialism after Empire: Internalization No access
  8. The Beginning and End, and the Future No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Invoking and Disrupting the Male Gaze No access
  3. Disrupting Western Discourses of the Veil No access
  4. Claiming “The Right to the City” by “Cultivating the Urban” No access
  5. Progressive Possibilities No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Acting Our Age: Generation in the Diaspora No access
  3. What’s Cooking?: Generation, Ethnicity, and Social Class No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Who’s Cooking?: Mothers and Daughters as Agents of Social Change No access
  3. Melting or Mixing?: Steps for a Future America No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Bend It Like Beckham (2002) No access
  3. Viceroy’s House (2017) No access
  4. Indian Identity and Displacement No access
  5. Derrida, Hospitality, Immigrants, and Sojourners No access
  6. Tradition, Gender, and Transnationalism No access
  7. Culture and Diaspora: Migration and Dislocation No access
  8. Diasporic Community: Hospitality and Enunciation No access
  9. Conclusion No access
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  11. Bibliography No access
3. 1. “An Asian Woman’s Vision” No access
  2. Badlands: Subversions in the Suburbs No access
  3. Parenting in the Suburbs No access
  4. “Caught in a Crossfire I Don’t Understand” No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Question of Home No access
  3. Negotiation within and without Home/Community No access
  4. Intersectionality No access
  5. The Effect of Colonization on South Asians No access
  6. Imperialism and Nationalism: The Role of the Indian Woman No access
  7. Diasporic Space No access
  8. Immigrant Positions No access
  9. History of South Asian/Sikh Immigration No access
  10. The Role of the Colonizer or the Dominant Group No access
  11. Assimilation: The Conflict Within No access
  12. Conclusion No access
  13. Notes No access
  14. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 231 - 234
About the Contributors No access Pages 235 - 238