Animating British Bangladeshi Memory

Diwas Bisht

Ahead of Publication Published by De Gruyter 2025

Animating British Bangladeshi Memory

Diwas Bisht

Volume 42 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

Overview

About this book

The British Bangladeshi diaspora is located at a complex intersection in postcolonial Britain. It not only embodies the unfolding legacy of the erstwhile colonial empire but is also a critical site of contemporary debates around race, religion, and nation. Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach combining key concepts from memory studies, diaspora studies, and arts-based methodologies, this book locates how ‘hidden’ histories of colonialism, Partition, migration, and settlement, are implicated in the community's negotiations of the meanings of being British, Bangladeshi, and Muslim. Mapping key shifts in the temporal and spatial locations of three generations of British Bangladeshis through a diasporic memory ecologies framework, the book analyses how multidirectional anti-colonial and anti-racist memories are gradually forgotten as young British Bangladeshis increasingly mobilise a pan-Islamic identity framework to resist racialisation and alienation. Importantly, through varied case studies, it locates how reanimating mnemonic linkages across these intergenerational ecologies through creative memory work can help understand and negotiate the present-day realities of the postcolonial migrant condition in the UK.

Author / Editor information

Diwas Bisht, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Diaspora studies scholars, memory studies scholars, scholars of postcolonial studies and South Asian studies
Pages
- Main content: 200
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
- Tables: 6
Keywords: Transcultural memory; South Asian diaspora; generations

eBook

Planned Publication: December 2, 2024
ISBN: 9783110982473

Hardcover

Planned Publication: December 2, 2024
ISBN: 9783110996210