SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA NARRATIVES: Roots and Routes

South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Roots and Routes, analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ?rooting into a culture? and ?routing out of a culture?. 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. It argues that a clearer notion of politics of location will be required to distinguish the different kinds of ?dislocation? the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. This book fills a lacuna in the 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.
Contents
1. South Asian Diaspora in Australia: History, Research, and Literature
2. An Element of Romanticization: Sensory and Spatial Locations
3. A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location
4. Real, Imagined, and Mythologized: (Re)Presentation of Lost Home
5. Acts of Remembering and Forgetting: Reflections through Nostalgia
6. An Australian Learning Experience: Prejudice, Racism, and Indifference
7. Another World, Another Future
8. Conclusion: Thoda Indian, Thoda Aussie