Introduction / Makarand Paranjape -- That third space : interrogating the diasporic paradigm / K. Satchidanandan -- Diasporas and the art of impossible mourning / Vijay Mishra -- Diaspora and its discontents / Shiva Kumar Srinivasan -- Gandhi and the diaspora question : histories, texts, and readings / Sudhir Kumar -- The new parochialism : homeland in the writing of the Indian diaspora / Jasbir Jain -- Between history and cultural politics : reflections on Punjabi writing of the diaspora / Manjit Inder Singh -- Producing (un)homely spaces : gender differences, Gujarati culture, and the South Asian diaspora / Pratyusha Basu -- Survival as an ethic : South Asian immigrant women's writing / C. Vijaysree -- Dangling men, nowhere women : the identity crisis of South Asian queers / R. Raj Rao -- Writing South Asian-Canadian diaspora : Amriika and ideology / Alka Kumar & Harish Narang -- One foot in Canada and a couple of toes in India : diasporas and homelands in South Asian Canadian experience / Makarand Paranjape -- Reimagining the homeland in South Asian America / Henry Schwarz -- The politics of history on the internet : cyber-diasporic Hinduism and the North American Hindu diaspora / Vinay Lal -- The digital diaspora : South Asians in the new Pax Electronica / Deepika Bahri -- Footnoting history : the diasporic imagination of Amitav Ghosh / Brinda Bose -- Indo-Malaysians : suspended identitites or citizens of a new selfdom / Shanthini Pillai -- Just clothes and ideas? : diasporic awareness in K.S. Maniam's fiction / Susanna Checketts -- Writing from the fringe of a multi-cultural society / K.S. Maniam -- Contextualizing diasporic locations in Deepa Mehta's Fire and Srinivas Krishna's Masala / Uma Parameswaran -- The adventure of indenture : a diasporic identity / Satendra Nandan -- The feudal post-colonial : the Fiji crisis / Vijay Mishra.
Summary:
Papers presented at an international seminar held in New Delhi from 27-30 September 2000.
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