Peripheral Centres, Central Peripheries: India and Its Diaspora(s)Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Vera Alexander Prominent scholars in literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, media studies, theatre production, and translation challenge the centre-periphery dichotomy used as a paradigm for relations between colonizers and their erstwhile subjects in this collection of critical interventions. Focussing on India and its diaspora(s) in western industrialized nations and former British colonies, this volume engages with topics of centrality and/or peripherality, particularly in the context of Anglophone Indian writing; the Indian languages; Indian film as art and popular culture; cross-cultural Shakespeare; diasporic pedagogy; and transcultural identity. |
Contents
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Whose Centre Which Periphery? | 37 |
The Southern Intellectual | 47 |
The Evolution of the CentrePeriphery Concept | 75 |
A Voice from the Periphery | 81 |
RECONTEXTUALIZING CENTRALITY | 90 |
A Working Paper on Aspects of the Politics of the PostColonial | 173 |
The Child and the Nation in Contemporary South Asian Literature | 183 |
InterCultural Tempests India Mauritius and London | 195 |
Looking at the Centre with Furious Eyes | 205 |
Satyajit Ray and Cinematic Modernism | 213 |
Lagaan and the Hindi Film after the 1990s | 223 |
PERIPHERAL POLYPHONY | 242 |
Issues of Identity among Indians at Home and in the Diaspora | 243 |
Reversing a Discursive Hierarchy | 91 |
Indian Anglophony Diasporan Polycentricism and Postcolonial Futures | 101 |
Diaspora Hybridity Pedagogy | 113 |
Traumatic Memory Mourning and VS Naipaul | 129 |
An Indian Contribution to World Literature | 157 |
PARAMETERS OF THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL | 172 |
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Page 20 - We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.
Page 19 - Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.
Page 16 - The one is independent, and its essential nature is to be for itself; the other is dependent, and its essence is life or existence for another. The former is the Master, or Lord, the latter the Bondsman.