Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822358220)

In Unsettling India, Purnima Mankekar offers a new understanding of the affective and temporal dimensions of how India and "Indianness," as objects of knowledge production and mediation, circulate through transnational public cultures. Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi and the San Francisco Bay Area, Mankekar tracks the sense of unsettlement experienced by her informants in both places, disrupting binary conceptions of homeland and diaspora, and the national and transnational. She examines Bollywood films, Hindi TV shows, advertisements, and such commodities as Indian groceries as interconnected nodes in the circulation of transnational public cultures that continually reconfigure affective connections to India and what it means to be Indian, both within the country and outside. Drawing on media and cultural studies, feminist anthropology, and Asian/Asian American studies, this book deploys unsettlement as an analytic to trace modes of belonging and not-belonging.


Author: Purnima Mankekar
ISBN-10: 0822358220
ISBN-13: 9780822358220
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2015
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 02/20/2015 pg. 14