[ecrea] cfp TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies - Bollywood and the South Asian Diaspora

TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
Call for Papers
Guest Editor: Nandi Bhatia
Department of English
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Bollywood and the South Asian Diaspora
TOPIA 26, Fall 2011
This special issue of TOPIA seeks essays that 
attempt to expand and deepen our understanding of 
the fraught relationship between Bollywood, 
global cinemas and the South Asian diaspora. 
Existing scholarship on Bollywood presents it as 
a complex terrain for the production of multiple 
and intersecting narratives about homelands and 
imagined communities of diaspora across 
transnational sites. Because the escalating 
global circulation and consumption of Bollywood 
demands further thinking of this relationship, 
both in terms of the contentions that mark the 
framing of Bollywood in the diaspora as well as 
the myriad possibilities it provides, this 
special issue solicits papers on the following 
(but not limited to) suggested topics that will 
enable further conversations and dialogue.
Representing narratives of migrancy, home, relocation, and displacement"
Representing gender, class and caste, and 
communal and nationalist politics " in South Asia, in the diaspora
Bollywood and diasporic aesthetics"
Industrial, aesthetic, capitalistic and political contexts for Bollywood film"
Audiences, communities, fans, cults: cultures of reception and consumption"
Melodrama, dance, music: traditions of performance"
Literary adaptations, Bollywood style"
Please submit all proposals and manuscripts to TOPIA editorial office
240 Vanier College, York University. Deadline: February 1, 2011
For general inquiries, contact the guest editor:
Dr Nandi Bhatia
Department of English
University of Western Ontario,
(Nbhatia2 /at/ uwo.ca)

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