Diaspora Writes Home

Jasbir Jain is the Honorary Director of the Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur and was Sahitya Akademi Writer-in-Residence (2009), and Emeritus Fellow (2001–2003) both at the University of Rajasthan. Recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, she is an elected Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and has had teaching assignments in Europe and the United States. She is the author of Theorising Resistance: Narratives in History and Politics (2012); Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency (2011); Beyond Postcolonialism: Dreams and Realities of a Nation (2006); Gendered Realities, Human Spaces (2003); among several others. Her current interests are in theory and narratology and in exploring traditions.

• 1. Introduction: Multiple Locations .- 2. Writing Home: Memory, History and Imagined Spaces.-  3. The Burden of Culture: Between Filiation and Affiliation.- 4. Geographical Dislocations and the Poetics of Exile: Ashis Gupta and Michael Ondaatje.- 5. Memory and Reflection in the Writing of the Diaspora.- 6. Writing in One’s Own Language and the Grounds of Being.- 7. The New Parochialism: Homeland in the Writing of the Indian Diaspora.- 8. Out of the Colonial Cocoon? From The Mimic Men to India: A Million Mutinies Now.- 9. Routes of Passage: Identity, Home and Culture through Dislocations – Dabydeen, Bissoondath and the Naipaul Inheritance.- 10. A Bit of India: Under African Skies.- 11. In Search of Nationhood Across Borders.- 12. Mid-Air Tragedy: The Emperor Kanishka Crash.- 13. Call of the Homeland: The Civil War in Sri Lanka.- 14. Failed Hijrat? Cultural Mourning, Refugees and Muhajirs.- 15. The Diaspora Zeroes in on the Borders.- 16. The Children of Jahazi Bhai: Histories, Cultures and (Dis)Continuities.- 17. To India with Love: Rushdie, Ghosh and Mistry.- 18 Cultural Interpretations/Representations in Film of the Indian Diaspora: Nostalgia, Memory or Spoofing?.- 19. Overwriting Memory: The Diaspora and Its Present.