This essay examines how the Bollywood film Swades (Gowariker 2004) mobilizes a discourse of shame to reorient Indian diasporic communities toward the home-land and, in the process, urges them to invest affectively and financially—or, better yet, to return physically to India. By revealing possibilities for non-resident Indi-ans to inaugurate new relations with the world left behind, Swades prods Indian diasporic viewers to rethink their relations to the homeland. The construction of shame within Swades is part of a complex address to those diasporic communities who consume Bollywood products through an affect of nostalgia and whose eco-nomic investment proves necessary to the continuation of Bollywood’s free enter-prise and to India’s econo...
Restructuring the sense of nation in the culture of imagined communities through Bollywood Unarguabl...
Unarguably, Bollywood (Hindi cinema) has spread its wings and continued its legacy to be the second ...
Bollywood cinema is a popular media source in the Indian diaspora that allows members to reconnect w...
As Diasporic Indian Cinema/Bollywood is one of the key cultural sites for the production of the nati...
Commercial Hindi cinema plays a central role in the negotiation of national identity. For decades, t...
The Indian diaspora has come out of the shadows in recent years. South Asians have transformed the f...
This paper debates the modern conceptualization of cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, grounded ...
Copyright © 2021 Utsa Mukherjee, Anil Pradhan, Ravinder Barn. Bollywood films are a unique visual re...
The history of Indian diasporic writing is as old as the diaspora itself. Most of the Indian diaspor...
Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a...
This article focuses on the greater inclusiveness in the Indian national identity necessitated by th...
In the wake of the steady expansion and more recent explosion of Anglo-Indian and Indo-Anglian writi...
The idea of India and the Indian diasporic imagination is the product of the rich scholarship being ...
Cet article propose une analyse de la situation de trois groupes de réfugiés - tibétains, afghans, b...
Cinematic representations of Indian poverty have been by and large open to allegations of aesthetici...
Restructuring the sense of nation in the culture of imagined communities through Bollywood Unarguabl...
Unarguably, Bollywood (Hindi cinema) has spread its wings and continued its legacy to be the second ...
Bollywood cinema is a popular media source in the Indian diaspora that allows members to reconnect w...
As Diasporic Indian Cinema/Bollywood is one of the key cultural sites for the production of the nati...
Commercial Hindi cinema plays a central role in the negotiation of national identity. For decades, t...
The Indian diaspora has come out of the shadows in recent years. South Asians have transformed the f...
This paper debates the modern conceptualization of cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, grounded ...
Copyright © 2021 Utsa Mukherjee, Anil Pradhan, Ravinder Barn. Bollywood films are a unique visual re...
The history of Indian diasporic writing is as old as the diaspora itself. Most of the Indian diaspor...
Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a...
This article focuses on the greater inclusiveness in the Indian national identity necessitated by th...
In the wake of the steady expansion and more recent explosion of Anglo-Indian and Indo-Anglian writi...
The idea of India and the Indian diasporic imagination is the product of the rich scholarship being ...
Cet article propose une analyse de la situation de trois groupes de réfugiés - tibétains, afghans, b...
Cinematic representations of Indian poverty have been by and large open to allegations of aesthetici...
Restructuring the sense of nation in the culture of imagined communities through Bollywood Unarguabl...
Unarguably, Bollywood (Hindi cinema) has spread its wings and continued its legacy to be the second ...
Bollywood cinema is a popular media source in the Indian diaspora that allows members to reconnect w...