Table of Contents

Introduction: How Canadian Are You? Mapping Nationalism, Media, and Self

1 East Meets West – and Everything Else: Living La Vida Loca in Bollywood

2 Theories of the Wandering Soul: Interpretations of Diaspora

3 Karma Chameleon: Citizenship, Identity, and the New Hybrids

4 But Where Are You Really From? South Asians and Muslims in Canada

5 Little Mosques and Bollywood Epics: Media and Identity Construction

6 “My Heart’s Indian for All That”: Themes of Nationalism and Migration in Bollywood

7 Up Close and Personal: Methodology for Obtaining Audience Opinion

8 “But, I dream in Canadian”: Constructing and Maintaining Plural Identities

9 Bollywood: Films as Meeting Ground

10 Beyond Futility: The Future of Young Canadians of South Asian Origin

Conclusion: You Really Are Global Citizens: Resistance and Reconciliation

Appendix A: Films Cited by Participants

References

Index

Promotional Information

Turning the spotlight on Bollywood cinema, this book illuminates how second-generation youth of South Asian origin draw on media in the development of uniquely hybrid identities.

About the Author

Faiza Hirji is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University. 

Reviews

In the post-9/11 era, in which Muslims are repeatedly represented as Other to the supposedly civilized Western world, Hirji’s contribution to scholarship is genuinely important and she has produced a book that is highly worth reading.
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