Embodied Memory and Bengali Identities in Britain

Julia Giese is a current Research Associate at the Department for Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University in the UK. She is interested in cultural memory, gender and diaspora, media work, and creative research methodologies.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Embodied Memories and the Diaspora.- 3. Setting the Scene.- 4. Beneath the Surface.- 5. Choreographing the Past.- 6. Embodied Transmission and Communication.- 7. Transnationalisation and Regionalisation of Mnemonic Belonging.- 8. Conclusions.