1st Edition
Imagining Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiat in the Transnational Era
1. Introduction - Imagining Punjab and the Punjabi diaspora: after more than a century of Punjabi migration
Anjali Gera Roy
2. ‘The heart, stomach and backbone of Pakistan': Lahore in novels by Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid
Claire Chambers
3. Culture shock on Southall Broadway: re-thinking ‘second-generation’ return through ‘geographies of Punjabiness’
Kaveri Qureshi
4. Punjabiyat and the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Virinder S. Kalra
5. Tracing Sufi influence in the works of contemporary Siraiki Poet, Riffat Abbas
Nukhbah Taj Langah
6. Exiled in its own land: Diasporification of Punjabi in Punjab
Abbas Zaidi
7. (Dis)honourable paradigms: a critical reading of Provoked, Shame and Daughters of Shame
Shweta Kushal and Evangeline Manickam
Biography
Anjali Gera Roy is a Professor in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. She has published widely on literary, cultural and diaspora studies. Her books include Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond (2010), Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA (2012), Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad (2012) and Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement (2008). Her new book, Cinema of Enchantment will be published in 2015.
