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2019 |
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Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain, East Africa, Gujarat
is the first detailed study of the cultural life and representations of the prolific
twice-displaced Gujarati East African diaspora in contemporary Britain. An exceptional
community of people, this diaspora is disproportionally successful and influential
in resettlement, both in East Africa and Britain. Often showcased as an example of
migrant achievement, their accomplishments are paradoxically underpinned by legacies
of trauma and deracination.
The diaspora, despite its economic success and considerable upward social mobility
in Britain, has until now been overlooked within critical literary and postcolonial
studies for a number of reasons. This book attends to that gap. Parmar uniquely investigates
what it is to be not just from India, but too Africa—how identity forms within, as
the study coins, the “double diaspora”. Parmar focuses on cultural representation
post-twice migration, via an interdisciplinary methodology, offering new contributions
to debates within diaspora studies. In doing so, the book examines a range of cultures
produced amongst, or about, the diaspora, including literary representations, culinary,
dance and sartorial practices, as well as visual materials. |
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9783030180829 |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1068132 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1068141 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1068142 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1068143 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1068144 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1068145 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1071575 |
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Article |
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Book |
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Parmar, Maya (2019). Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain,
East Africa, Gujarat. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. |
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urn:isbn:9783030180829 |
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Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain, East Africa, Gujarat |
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