Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations

Shilpa Daithota Bhatis assistant professor at the National Forensic Sciences University (An Institution of National Importance; Ministry of Home Affairs) in India.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionShilpa Daithota Bhat Part 1: Transnational Culture and Contexts Chapter 1:Gurinder Chadha as a Scriptwriter: the Auteur in Dialogue with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of SpicesCristina M. Gámez Fernández Chapter 2: Gurinder Chadha: BrAsian Inroads into PlanetarityAlejandra Moreno Álvarez and Jorge Diego SanchezChapter 3: Diasporic Crosscurrents: Gurinder Chadha and Mira Nair's Early DocumentariesAmardeep SinghPart 2: Power, Perspectives and Cultural RepresentationsChapter 4: ‘You may as well please yourself’: Resistance and Narrative Hegemony in the Films of Gurinder ChadhaSetara PrachaChapter 5: The Politics of the Possible in Gurinder Chadha’s “Quais de Seine”Lara V. KattekolaChapter 6: Generation Matters: Diasporic Reality and Myth-Making in Gurinder Chadha’s Acting Our Age and What’s Cooking?Izabella KimakPart 3: Socio-Cultural Spaces and Multicultural NegotiationsChapter 7: Salad or Soup?: Feasts of Feminism and Mult

Widely admired across the globe for her visual and cultural productions, Gurinder Chadha is among the pioneering voices of the diaspora. A book-length critique on this domain was eagerly awaited in international academia, and Shilpa Daithota Bhat has filled this lacuna by bringing Chadha scholars together on one platform through this book. Every essay in this book is seminal and different in terms of text, context, and criticism. This collection shall be a great treasure, as well as a guiding force, for academics working in the field of film studies.