Home, Uprooted

Auteur

Devika Chawla is Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. She is the co-author of Intercultural Communication: An Ecological Approach and co-author of Liminal Traces: Storying, Performing, and Embodying Postcoloniality.

Texte du rabat

Home how we experience it and what that says about the selves we come to occupy is a crucial question of our contemporary moment. Home, Uprooted delivers one perspective on this question via cross-generational oral histories of Indian Partition refugees. Stories in this book are one iteration of how diasporic migrations might be enacted and what home in its sense, absence, presence might mean to displaced populations.

Résumé
Offers an exploration of the oral histories of three generations of refugees from India's Partition. This book focuses on the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of participants from ten Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi.

Contenu

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Beginnings-In Headnotes 2. Fieldwork-Homework 3. A Story Travels 4. Home Outside Home 5. Adrift-Reluctant Nomads 6. Hearth Crossings 7. Remnants 8. My Father, My Interlocutor Notes Bibliography Index