Gita Rajan

Jigna Desai

Transnational feminism has been critical to feminist theorizing in the global North over the last few decades. Perhaps due to its broad terminology, transnational feminism can become vague and dislocated, losing its ability to name specific critiques of and responses to empire, race, and globalization that are emboldened by its transnational remit. This volume encompasses an expansive engagement and exploration of transnational South Asian feminist movements, networks, and critiques within the context of the popular and the diaspora in South Asia. The contributing authors address key issues in a global context, especially as they operate both in a situated and the diasporic imaginary of South Asia. While the idea of the popular in South Asia has often been circumscribed by the spaces and cultural politics of Bollywood, this interdisciplinary volume takes an innovative turn to examine how academics, advocates, activists, and artists envision the inroads and consequences of nationalism, globalization and/or empire, which continually remake communities and alter needs and allegiances. Through ethnography, literature, dance, cinema, activism, poetry, and storytelling, the authorsd analyse popular and social justice using a focused, multidisciplinary gendered lens. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia

Radhika Mohanram

At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the idea of empire. This book examines various theories of empire, and how they create networks of discourse in contemporary postcolonial settings. In exploring the idea of empire, the contributors consider such constructions as nation and modernity, identity politics, the status and role of exiles, and border intellectuals. Postcolonial texts considered include literature and films.

Theory and Criticism

Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts

Rohit Gore

A Darker Dawn takes us to Amrapur, a small town in Maharashtra, and into the lives of four 12-year-olds, Dev, Avi, Anita and Jeet, who together face the traumas, tribulations and joys of their childhood. However, Amrapur is prey to communal frenzy, which leads to a parting of the four friends, who now share a terrible secret and leave Amrapur for the world outside, transforming themselves in the process. They return 20 years later, summoned back to their past by a blackmailer. They need to know who has discovered their secret before it consumes their lives.

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