Introduction
This guide provides information on South Asian- Diasporic Studies resources available to UBC students, staff and faculty. To view South Asian Diaspora- specific reading, please choose one of the links below.
ASIA 333 001 : Contemporary South Asian Gender and Sexuality Studies
South Asian Feminisms by Call Number: HQ1735.3 .S657 2012ISBN: 9780822351658Publication Date: 2012-03-05During the past forty years, South Asia has been the location and the focus of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism. In this collection of essays, prominent feminist scholars and activists build on that work to confront pressing new challenges for feminist theorizing and practice.
Matangi, Maya, M.I.A. by Call Number: ML3930.M06 M38 2018 dvdMatangi/Maya/M.I.A. is a 2018 biographical documentary film about English rapper and artist M.I.A.. Directed by Steve Loveridge, the film follows 22 years in the rapper's life, her rise to fame and her perspective on the controversies sparked over her music, public appearances and political activism.
Desperately Seeking Helen by It documents the life of the Bollywood star Helen and also discusses Marjara's process of self-discovery. The film covers the complications in the relationship between Marjara and her mother, Devinder. Marjara had the perception that her mother was unable to balance the culture of Canada against that of India, and Devinder was more feminine and traditional compared to her daughter. The film also discusses the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing, which ultimately killed Davinder along with Seema, one of Marjara's sisters.
ASIA 389 001 : Life Writings of South Asian Diasporic Women
Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture by Call Number: HD4875.G95 B34 2013ISBN: 9781849042772In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a ‘coolie’, the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant and travelling alone. A century later, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past, hoping to solve a mystery: what made her leave her country? And had she also left behind a man?
Meatless Days by Call Number: PE64.S84 A3 1989ISBN: 0226779807Publication Date: 1989-06-15In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memories--of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and five siblings; and of her own passage to the West.
Our Feet Walk the Sky by Call Number: PS153.A84 O97 1993ISBN: 187996032XPublication Date: 2008-09-01The first anthology of its kind: includes essays, memoir, and fiction.
ASIA 433 001 : The Cinematic Lives of Muslims in South Asia
Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora by Call Number: PK5416ISBN: 9780415659307Publication Date: 2014-07-21Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the ‘South Asian Muslim’ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical analysis of these representations of Muslims from South Asia and its diaspora in literature, the media, culture and cinema.
Khamosh pani by Call Number: PN1997.2 .K458 2005 dvdIt is 1979 and Pakistan is embracing nationalism through its Islamic identity. Widowed Ayesha lives in Charkhi, Punjab with her son Saleem, who joins a group of fundamentalists. When a group of Sikh pilgrims come to town, the family's faith comes into question.
