Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts of ‘home and away’. They operate not only as international connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which transnational exchanges occur? Much discussion of the transnational focuses on international movements of law, politics and economics as they relate to Europe and the Americas. This book extends the focus to dynamics across the humanities and social sciences and concentrates on the historical and now growing interactions between India and Australia. Studies come from scholars in both countries, who combine academic depth for students and researchers and writing that is clear and engaging for the general reader.
1. Introduction;Transnational Spaces and Global Cultural
Exchange; Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay and Paul Sharrad.-
2. Displaying the
Transnational Imaginary: Calcutta International Exhibition (1883) and
the Victorian Court; Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay.- 3. The Transnational in
Japanese Civilian Internment Camps in Australia and India; Rowena
Ward.-
4. Indian-Australian Political Candidates as Transnational
Actors: Reflecting the Community or Fighting Othering?; Sukhmani
Khorana.- 5. Ghazal as a Transnational Space; Ghazal as Endgame: Judith
Wrights Shadow of Fire; Anne Collett.- 6. Possibilities through
Strategic Essentialism: Adani TNC, Protest and Negotiation
Discourses in Australia; Arindam Das.-
7. Google Earth and Google Babies:
Nation, Transnation and the Australian Reproscape - Vera Mackie.-
8. Literature and Identity Appropriation through Costello: Coetzees
Dealings with theMigrants Crisis; Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga
Bhattacharjee.- 9 . Telugu Cinema and Australia - Nishi Pulugurtha.- 10. The
attention of the curious: Robert Kyd and cultivating knowledge in
eighteenth-century Bengal; Eileen Chanin.-
11. English as Efficiency: New
Indentured Labour and the Capital of Australian Universities; Mridula
Nath Chakraborty.- 12. Home away from home: the aged-care facility as
transnational space; Paul Sharrad.- 13. White Commonwealth and
Coloured Empire: Unmasking the Shared Colonial History of Australia and
India; Richard Nile.
Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay is Secretary of the Indian Association for Studies of Australia, Eastern Branch and Vice Chancellor of Bankura University, West Bengal, India. He has edited several collections of studies of Indian-Australia literary and historical links.
Dr Paul Sharrad is University Fellow at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely on postcolonial literatures, with specialisations in writing from India, Australia and the Pacific.
