Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora Britain, East Africa, Gujarat /

• Main Author: Parmar, Maya (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Culture.; Ethnology-Asia.; Ethnology-Europe.; Ethnology-Africa.; Literature .; Global/International Culture.; Asian Culture.; British Culture.; African Culture.; Postcolonial/World Literature.

Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain, East Africa, Gujarat is the first detailed study of the cultural life and representations of the prolific twice-displaced Gujarati East African diaspora in contemporary Britain. An exceptional community of people, this diaspora is dis...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Producing culture in the double diaspora
• 2. The gastropoetics of The settler's cookbook: Diasporic trauma and embodied narratives
• 3. The performing body of Navratri: Dancing dandiya, dressing to impress
• 4. Picturing the modern self: Vernacular modernity and temporal synchronicity
• 5. Conclusion
• 6. Epilogue: Forging links and loyalties: Exporting Indian national identity, shaping digital diasporic identity.