India and the Diasporic Imagination

• Other Authors: Christian, Rita (Editor), Misrahi-Barak, Judith (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011
• Series: Horizons anglophones
• Subjects: Asian history; hybridity; Caribbean; amnesia; Indian Diaspora; Indo-Guyanese; Indo-Caribbean; Indian Ocean; trauma
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The idea of India and the Indian diasporic imagination is the product of the rich scholarship being done on the Asian sub-continent, as well as in the many countries where South Asians have settled. The notion of 'many Indias' and many diasporas attempts to accommodate people with multiple...