Transnational Spaces of India and Australia

Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts of 'home and away'. They operate not only as international connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which transnational exchanges occur? Much discussion of the transnational focuses on international movements of law, politics and economics as they relate to Europe and the Americas. This book extends the focus to dynamics across the humanities and social sciences and concentrates on the historical and now growing interactions between India and Australia. Studies come from scholars in both countries, who combine academic depth for students and researchers and writing that is clear and engaging for the general reader.

Extends ?focus on transnational movements to dynamics across the humanities and social sciences Concentrates on the historical and now growing interactions between India and Australia Includes contributions from scholars in both countries

Autorentext

Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is Secretary of the Indian Association for Studies of Australia, Eastern Branch and Vice Chancellor of Bankura University, West Bengal, India. He has edited several collections of studies of Indian-Australia literary and historical links.

Dr Paul Sharrad is University Fellow at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely on postcolonial literatures, with specialisations in writing from India, Australia and the Pacific.

Klappentext

Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts of home and away . They operate not only as international connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which transnational exchanges occur? Much discussion of the transnational focuses on international movements of law, politics and economics as they relate to Europe and the Americas. This book extends the focus to dynamics across the humanities and social sciences and concentrates on the historical and now growing interactions between India and Australia. Studies come from scholars in both countries, who combine academic depth for students and researchers and writing that is clear and engaging for the general reader.

Inhalt

1. Introduction;Transnational Spaces and Global Cultural Exchange; Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay and Paul Sharrad.- 2. Displaying the Transnational Imaginary: Calcutta International Exhibition (1883) and the Victorian Court; Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay.- 3. The Transnational in 'Japanese' Civilian Internment Camps in Australia and India; Rowena Ward.- 4. Indian-Australian Political Candidates as Transnational Actors: Reflecting the Community or Fighting Othering?; Sukhmani Khorana.- 5. Ghazal as a Transnational Space; Ghazal as Endgame: Judith Wright's 'Shadow of Fire'; Anne Collett.- 6. Possibilities through 'Strategic Essentialism': Adani TNC, Protest and Negotiation Discourses in Australia; Arindam Das.- 7. Google Earth and Google Babies: Nation, Transnation and the Australian Reproscape - Vera Mackie.- 8. Literature and Identity Appropriation through Costello: Coetzee's Dealings with theMigrant's Crisis; Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee.- 9 . Telugu Cinema and Australia - Nishi Pulugurtha.- 10. 'The attention of the curious': Robert Kyd and cultivating knowledge in eighteenth-century Bengal; Eileen Chanin.- 11. English as Efficiency: New Indentured Labour and the Capital of Australian Universities; Mridula Nath Chakraborty.- 12. Home away from home: the aged-care facility as transnational space; Paul Sharrad.- 13. White Commonwealth and Coloured Empire: Unmasking the Shared Colonial History of Australia and India; Richard Nile.