Diasporic consciousness and Bollywood : South African Indian youth and the meanings they make of Indian film

Boshoff, Priscilla A

Title: Diasporic consciousness and Bollywood : South African Indian youth and the meanings they make of Indian film
Creator: Boshoff, Priscilla A
ThesisAdvisor: Strelitz, Larry
Subject: Motion pictures -- India
Subject: Youth -- South Africa -- Attitudes
Subject: East Indians -- South Africa -- Attitudes
Subject: Motion picture industry -- India -- Mumbai
Date: 2006
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:3503
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006249
Identifier: Motion pictures -- India
Identifier: Youth -- South Africa -- Attitudes
Identifier: East Indians -- South Africa -- Attitudes
Identifier: Motion picture industry -- India -- Mumbai
Description: A particular youth identity in the South African Indian diaspora is being forged in a nexus o flocal and global forces . The globalisation of Bollywood and its popularity as a global media and the international commodification of the Indian exotic have occurred at the same time as the valorisation of 'difference' in the local political landscape. Indian youth, as young members of the South African Indian diaspora, are inheritors both of a conservative - yet adaptable - home culture and the marginalised identities of apartheid. However, the tensions between their desire to be recognised as both 'modern' South Africans and as ' traditional ' Indians create a space in which they are able to (re)create for themselves an identity that can encompass both their home cultures and the desires of a Westernised modernity through the tropes of Bollywood. Bollywood speaks to its diasporic audiences through representations of an idealised 'traditional yet modern' India. Although India is not a place of return for this young generation, Bollywood representations of successful diasporic Indian culture and participation in the globalised Bollywood industry through concerts and international award ceremonies has provided an opportunity for young Indians in South Africa to re-examine their local Indian identities and feel invited to re-identify with the global diasporas of India.
Format: 171 pages, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Journalism and Media Studies
Language: English
Rights: Boshoff, Priscilla A

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