Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations

This edited volume is a collection of scholarly research on filmmaker Gurinder Chadha’s work representing Indian culture in foreign lands. Contributors discuss the implications of such admixtures on acculturation processes, diasporic formations, and specific cultural experiences.

Shilpa Daithota Bhatis assistant professor at the National Forensic Sciences University (An Institution of National Importance; Ministry of Home Affairs) in 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. Gámez Fernández Chapter 2: Gurinder Chadha: BrAsian Inroads into Planetarity Alejandra Moreno Álvarez 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 Mult