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The conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: Imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrants

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dc.contributor.authorMendes, Ana Cristina
dc.contributor.authorLau, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-13T07:45:30Z
dc.date.available2018-07-13T07:45:30Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractFocusing on returnee Indian authors, this article contributes to analytical perspectives on imagined geographies. We map the imagined geographies of 2010s Delhi and India as experienced and created by Indian returnee migrant authors, drawing on the hybrid nonfiction works India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India by Akash Kapur and Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta. Juxtaposed, these texts sited on the borderline between fiction and nonfiction construct and produce knowledge on an imagined ‘new India’, textualised in literary form. Kapur and Dasgupta, having returned from long sojourns in the West are now India-based, privileged observers of and participants in the very subject of their study – the ground realities of contemporary, 21st century India – both temporally and geographically. As diasporic narrators of a ‘new India’, they stand within their physical landscapes as well as the created landscapes of their narrations. This article draws on the construction of imagined geographies, with a focus on the issue of affect and, relatedly, identification, desire, and transgression, and their impact on the representation of an imaginary homeland, to unpack the tension and dissonance between their imagined geographies of India – as residents and as members of the diaspora – and their lived geographies. We conclude that Kapur and Dasgupta’s imagined geographies offer an alternative account of the contemporary processes that geographers are seeking to describe and explain. Not only do their imagined geographies impact reality but also construct new worlds and realities of ‘new India’ in literary representation. Their hybrid nonfiction texts position India globally, carefully un-glamorising the binary representations of ‘India Shining’ and ‘Dark India’, and recovering the multiplicity of presences in the conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationMendes, AC, Lau, L. (2018) “The conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: Imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrants”, cultural geographies, pp. 1-16.pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1474474018786033pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn1477-0881
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/34156
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherTaylor & Francispt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474474018786033pt_PT
dc.subjectPostcolonial studiespt_PT
dc.subjectPostcolonial literaturept_PT
dc.subjectOrientalismpt_PT
dc.subjectRe-orientalismpt_PT
dc.subjectDasgupta, Ranapt_PT
dc.subjectKapur, Akashpt_PT
dc.subjectCultural studiespt_PT
dc.subjectIndiapt_PT
dc.subjectIndian writing in Indiapt_PT
dc.subjectDelhipt_PT
dc.subjectImagined geographiespt_PT
dc.subjectLiterary geographiespt_PT
dc.titleThe conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: Imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrantspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceLondonpt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage16pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage1pt_PT
oaire.citation.titlecultural geographiespt_PT
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rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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