[ecrea] TOPIA: Bollywood issue out now

*/TOPIA 26/ out now!*

/TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies/ is pleased to announce the 
publication of /TOPIA 26: Bollywood and the South Asian Diaspora/, guest 
edited by Nandi Bhatia (UWO). Over the last decade, Bollywood—a term 
that loosely refers to Bombay’s Hindi-Urdu cinema and represents the 
largest film industry in the world—has attracted tremendous interest as 
an area of academic inquiry. What links many critical discussions is an 
attempt to understand Bollywood’s relationship with the diaspora, where 
this cultural form is increasingly consumed through new communication 
networks, satellite links, television channels, grocery and online 
stores, the Internet, Bollyweb, exhibitions, academic courses, and film 
festivals. The articles assembled in this special theme issue attempt to 
expand and deepen our understanding of the relationship between 
Bollywood and the South Asian diaspora, analyzing Bollywood as a complex 
terrain for the production of multiple and intersecting narratives about 
“homelands” and imagined communities of diaspora across transnational sites.

The /TOPIA 26 /Table of Contents is below. To purchase a copy of /TOPIA 
26/, visit the York University Bookstore, or contact Wilfrid Laurier 
Press at http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/press/Journals/topia/index.shtml.

*/Number Twenty-six /**– Fall 2011*

*Special Issue: Bollywood and the South Asian Diaspora*

*Nandi Bhatia *

Introduction: Bollywood and the South Asian Diaspora

*Articles*

*Chandrima Chakraborty*

Shaming the Indian Diaspora, Asking for “Returns:” /Swades/

*Priscilla Boshoff*

Bollywood Nights: Indian Youth and the Creation of Diasporic Identity in 
South Africa

*Shahnaz Khan*

The Complicated Pleasures of Hindi Cinema in Canada

*Madhuja Mukherjee*

Remembering /Devdas/: Travels, Transformations and Persistence of Images 
Bollywood Style

*Anjali Gera Roy*

Meanings of Bhangra and Bollywood Dancing in India and the Diaspora

*Ajay Gehlawat*

The /Gori /in the Story: The Shifting Dynamics of Whiteness in the 
Bollywood Film

*Fazeela Jiwa*

Vamps, Heroines, Otherwise: Diasporic Women Resisting Essentialism

*Faiza Hirji*

/Ranis /Making Rotis: Dreams of the Good South Asian Girl

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*Review Essays*

*Sonam Singh*

The Production and Consumption of the Bollywood Phenomenon

*Astrida Neimanis*

Theory That Matters: Feminism, Porous Boundaries and the New Materialisms

*Christine Mitchell*

Does Not Compute: Language Circuits and Translatability

*Reviews*

*Alia Somani*

Flexible Identities: Muslim Diasporas and the Bollywood Film Industry

*Malreddy Pavan Kumar*

Gender and Nation in Bombay Cinema

*Suvadip Sinha*

Cinematic Mourning: Partition and Indian Cinema

*Jon Sufrin*

History, Media, Memory

*Jaclyn Rohel*

Remembering the Small-Town Chinese Restaurant: Diasporic Culture at the 
Junction of Old and New

*Caitlin McKinney*

Toward a Queer Canadian Archive

*Pauline Wakeham*

Re-Centring Indigenous Ideas