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Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha’s work offers relevant and sensitive portrayals of the members of the diaspora community that make these films of contemporary and enduring value, highlighting their challenges in hybridization and acculturation in the societies they migrate to and the historical and political exigencies that influence their everyday existence. Contributors analyze Chadha’s films in the context of cultural milieus including multiculturalism, narration and representation, ethnicity, literary adaptation, and intercultural negotiations, while also exploring Chadha’s own role as an auteur. Scholars of film studies, Indian cinema, diaspora studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

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Author:   Shilpa Daithota Bhat ,  Lauren Bettridge ,  Shilpa Daithota Bhat ,  Susan Flynn
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9781666912852

ISBN 10:   1666912859
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   15 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Shilpa Daithota Bhat Part 1: Transnational Culture and Contexts Chapter 1:Gurinder Chadha as a Scriptwriter: the Auteur in Dialogue with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices Cristina M. Gámez Fernández Chapter 2: Gurinder Chadha: BrAsian Inroads into Planetarity Alejandra Moreno Álvarez and Jorge Diego Sanchez Chapter 3: Diasporic Crosscurrents: Gurinder Chadha and Mira Nair's Early Documentaries Amardeep Singh Part 2: Power, Perspectives and Cultural Representations Chapter 4: ‘You may as well please yourself’: Resistance and Narrative Hegemony in the Films of Gurinder Chadha Setara Pracha Chapter 5: The Politics of the Possible in Gurinder Chadha’s “Quais de Seine” Lara V. Kattekola Chapter 6: Generation Matters: Diasporic Reality and Myth-Making in Gurinder Chadha’s Acting Our Age and What’s Cooking? Izabella Kimak Part 3: Socio-Cultural Spaces and Multicultural Negotiations Chapter 7: Salad or Soup?: Feasts of Feminism and Multiculturalism in Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking? Reshmi Hebbar Chapter 8: Negotiating Belonging: Multicultural education in the films of Gurinder Chadha Susan Flynn Chapter 9: Darkness on the Edge of Town: Growing up in the Suburbs in Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife and Blinded by the Light Lauren Bettridge Chapter 10: A Negotiation of ‘home’ in Gurinder Chadha’s film Bend It Like Beckham J. Sunita Peacock About the Contributors

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Gurinder Chadha's negotiation of multicultural spaces that are specific as well as representative has been critically examined in Shilpa Daithota Bhat's collection of critical essays, Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha. This is a first of its kind and offers many insightful, critically valued observations on Chadha's contribution to cinema, not only as a mode of entertainment but as an 'international language' that breaks barriers and traverses across terrains on identity, diaspora and culture. This collection is important not only because of its contribution to the existing dialogue on diasporic identity and its representation in cinema, but also because it explores how history, politics and global cultures affect human experience and memories.--Shashikala Assella, University of Kelaniya Widely admired across the globe for her visual and cultural productions, Gurinder Chadha is among the pioneering voices of the diaspora. A book-length critique on this domain was eagerly awaited in international academia, and Shilpa Daithota Bhat has filled this lacuna by bringing Chadha scholars together on one platform through this book. Every essay in this book is seminal and different in terms of text, context, and criticism. This collection shall be a great treasure, as well as a guiding force, for academics working in the field of film studies.--Ajay K. Chaubey, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand

Gurinder Chadha's negotiation of multicultural spaces that are specific as well as representative has been critically examined in Shilpa Daithota Bhat's collection of critical essays, Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha. This is a first of its kind and offers many insightful, critically valued observations on Chadha's contribution to cinema, not only as a mode of entertainment but as an 'international language' that breaks barriers and traverses across terrains on identity, diaspora and culture. This collection is important not only because of its contribution to the existing dialogue on diasporic identity and its representation in cinema, but also because it explores how history, politics and global cultures affect human experience and memories. --Shashikala Assella, University of Kelaniya This book is a remarkable work of diasporic scholarship of Chadha's cinematic representations. It examines the multifarious themes of migration through films and documentaries. Chadha's execution of the diasporic reality into reels is reviewed and critiqued through a theoretical lens by renowned scholars worldwide. The book traverses the borders and boundaries and navigates through cross-cultural spaces, multicultural negotiations, etc. This book marks a trend in the field of diaspora and media and it is strongly recommended. --Sireesha Telugu, University of Hyderabad Widely admired across the globe for her visual and cultural productions, Gurinder Chadha is among the pioneering voices of the diaspora. A book-length critique on this domain was eagerly awaited in international academia, and Shilpa Daithota Bhat has filled this lacuna by bringing Chadha scholars together on one platform through this book. Every essay in this book is seminal and different in terms of text, context, and criticism. This collection shall be a great treasure, as well as a guiding force, for academics working in the field of film studies. --Ajay K. Chaubey, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand

Widely admired across the globe for her visual and cultural productions, Gurinder Chadha is among the pioneering voices of the diaspora. A book-length critique on this domain was eagerly awaited in international academia, and Shilpa Daithota Bhat has filled this lacuna by bringing Chadha scholars together on one platform through this book. Every essay in this book is seminal and different in terms of text, context, and criticism. This collection shall be a great treasure, as well as a guiding force, for academics working in the field of film studies.--Ajay K. Chaubey, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand

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Shilpa Daithota Bhat is assistant professor at Ahmedabad University in Gujarat, India.

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