Amrita Ghosh, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Bhakti Shringarpure

India's Imperial Formations (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Perspectives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape, where a collusion with whiteness, Hindu fundamentalism, casteism, and religious and racial bigotry are rampant, and create hegemonic imaginaries of an India that denies a democratic space of multiple Indias to coexist together. India is not only home to the world's largest film industry but also has one of the oldest media ecosystems today with a prolific output in television, radio, print, and digital media. These systems shape hearts and minds in the large nation and also have significant impact in the region as well as in the world due to India's vast diaspora population. This book argues that Indian culture industries are a crucial site to investigate constructions of Islamophobia, casteism, sinophobia, sexism, colorism and anti-Blackness. Within this work, the authors highlight the urgent need to evaluate the complicity of Indian and diasporic cultural production in perpetuating a casual and sometimes even aggressive normalization of bigotry and discrimination towards minoritized communities. This polemical book is written by three scholars of culture, gender and postcolonial studies providing an accessible yet rigorous study of these issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683933007
• Artikelnr.: 74820692

Autorenporträt

Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor in South Asian literatures in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida.
Rohit K Dasgupta is associate professor in gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Bhakti Shringarpure is author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital and recently co-edited the collection Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 1: The Cultural Industries of India: Imperial & Critical Contexts
Chapter 2: Imperial Cinematic Imaginations: Bollywood's Race Problem
Chapter 3: "We Love America": Imperial Indian Diaspora on Television
Chapter 4: Metanarratives of Nation: Race, Caste and Religion