South Asian Diasporas and (Imaginary) Homelands: Narratives, Representations and Mediated Exchanges

This edited volume looks at the ways in which films, literature, photography and social media construct images of homelands and diasporas as well as the ways in which they facilitate exchanges between them. The volume presents with a dialogue between these representations and analyses how they are constructed, disseminated, appropriated and/or challenged in relation to recent political developments in South Asia and in the diaspora.

Focusing on images and narratives about South Asia and its diaspora, the book aims to re-centre the political nature of representations, as it addresses the interplay between representation, imagination and identity, with a specific focus on the South Asian diasporic experience.

This book will interest students and scholars of media, communication, popular culture, cultural studies, Asian studies, politics and sociology.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Clelia Clini is Lecturer in Postcolonial Media and Culture, School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is also a Visiting Fellow in Postcolonial Memory in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Her research cuts across disciplines as she works across migration and diaspora studies; postcolonial theory; memory and cultural heritage; film and media studies.

Deimantas Valančiūnas is Associate Professor of film and popular cultures of Asia at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University. His research interests include Indian cinema, postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, gothic and horror cinemas in Asia. He is an editor of special journal issues and author of a number of journal articles on South Asian cinema and literature.