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.
Shilpa Daithota Bhat is assistant professor at Ahmedabad University in Gujarat, India.
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. Gamez Fernandez Chapter 2: Gurinder Chadha: BrAsian Inroads into Planetarity Alejandra Moreno Alvarez 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
