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South Asian Diaspora Narratives

Roots and Routes

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Authors:
  1. Amit Sarwal

    1. SBS Hindi Radio, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Provides an insightful account into the development of a multicultural society in Australia
  • Brings together multidisciplinary discourses on the South Asian diaspora in Australia
  • Adds significantly to the literature on the growing field of diaspora studies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Roots and Routes

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 1-38

  3. South Asian Diaspora in Australia: History, Research, and Literature

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 39-69

  4. An Element of Romanticization: Sensory and Spatial Locations

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 71-80

  5. A Journey Through Places: Politics of Spatial Location

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 81-95

  6. Real, Imagined, and Mythologized: (Re)Presentation of Lost Home

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 97-108

  7. Acts of Remembering and Forgetting: Reflections Through Nostalgia

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 109-122

  8. An Australian Learning Experience: Prejudice , Racism and Indifference

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 123-134

  9. Another World, Another Future

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 135-146

  10. Conclusion: Thoda Indian, Thoda Aussie

    • Amit Sarwal
    Pages 147-157

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 159-184
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About this book

This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. 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. The author argues that a clearer notion of politics of location is required to distinguish between the different kinds of ‘dislocation’ the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. The diaspora is Australia is an under-studied topic, and this book fills a lacuna in 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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • SBS Hindi Radio, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Amit Sarwal

About the author

Amit Sarwal is a Producer at SBS Hindi Radio in Melbourne, Australia. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor of RMIT University and the Founding Convenor of Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network (AIIRN). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Deakin University and has also taught as Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi. He has many books to his credit, prominent being: Salaam Bollywood (Routledge, 2016), Labels and Locations (CSP, 2015), Bollywood and its Other(s) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and Wanderings in India (Monash University Press, 2012).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: South Asian Diaspora Narratives

  • Book Subtitle: Roots and Routes

  • Authors: Amit Sarwal

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3629-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3628-6Published: 12 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9925-0Published: 29 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3629-3Published: 03 May 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 184

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Asian Culture, Migration, Memory Studies

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