At Home in Diaspora
South Asian Scholars and the West
Published on 31. October 2003
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-253-34332-1 (ISBN)
Description
During the past two decades, at the same time that the South Asian presence in the US and UK has become an increasingly notable part of mainstream social life and popular culture, scholars of South Asian descent have come to occupy many prominent positions within the Western academy, shaping the development of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. In this collection of highly personal essays, leading figures in anthropology, history, and cultural and literary studies reflect on the complex interplay between individual and collective trajectories, examining their own experiences as students, scholars, and teachers.Their narratives trace the arc of interactions between East and West from the late colonial period, through Indian Independence, the Cold War, the radicalism of the 60s, and the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies, to the current conjuncture. Throughout, these writers explore the past and future significance of area studies as a paradigm for education and scholarship.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-34332-1 (9780253343321)
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Content
Introduction to the New Edition by James W. FernandezAt home in the diaspora: South Asia, Europe, the United States Jackie Assayag and Veronique Benei1. Knowledge, circulation and collective biography Arjun Appadurai, Yale University; 2. My place in the global republic of letters Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University; 3. Off-center: Feminism and South Asian studies in the diaspora Purnima Mankekar, Stanford University; 4. Crossing borders and boundaries Vasudha Dalmia, California University, Berkeley; 5. Representing rural India Akhil Gupta, Stanford University; 6. De-ghettoizing the histories of the non-West Shahid Amin, University of Delhi; 7. Journey to the East, by the West Prasenjit Duara, University of Chicago; 8. The location of scholarship Gyan Prakash, Princeton University; 9. Globalisation, democratization, and the evacuation of history? Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago; 10. On the advantages of being a Barbarian Sudipta Kaviraj, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; 11. The ones who stayed behind Ramachandra Guha; 12. My brothers' keeper Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris & Oxford University; 13. Recasting women in the publishing world Urvashi Butalia, publisher, Kali for Women