South Asian Diasporas and (Imaginary) Homelands

Clelia Clini is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Media and Culture, School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is also Visiting Fellow in Postcolonial Memory in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. She has published in the field of South Asian diasporic literature and cinema; memories and post-memories of the 1947 Partition of British India; migration and the Indian Punjabi diaspora in Italy; forced displacement, creative arts and wellbeing.Deimantas Valančiūnas is Associate Professor of film and popular cultures of Asia at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania. His research interests include Indian cinema, postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, gothic and horror cinemas in Asia. He is a co-editor of a volume titled South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories and Media (University of Wales Press, 2021) and of a number of journal articles on Indian cinema.

• Introduction – South Asian diasporas and (imaginary) homelands: thinking through representations 1. Who is afraid of hybridity? Re-visiting Bhaji on the Beach and perspectives on multiculturalism in Britain 2. Diasporic visions: colonialism, nostalgia and the empire in Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House 3. Haunting memories: Sri Lankan civil war, trauma and diaspora in literature and film 4. The days of plenty: images of first generation Malayali migrants in the Arabian Gulf 5. Lost and found, centre and periphery: narratives of the Jain diasporic experience online 6. Indo-Caribbean diaspora, foreign policy, and iterations of Hindu identity 7. Negotiating identity in the diaspora: the role of South Asian youth organizations