Graphic migrations : precarity and gender in India and the diaspora / Kavita Daiya.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents Introduction: Theorizing "Subaltern Secularism" in the Crisis of Modern Migration. The Remains of Partition: Art, Storytelling, Public Culture -- Secularism in Crisis -- Restorying Migration: The Popular Representation of Refugees' Stories -- Ecologies of Displacement: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens --#rememberingpartition: Unpacking The Archive -- Chapter 1: "Partition Is Still Happening": Transmedia and Graphic Secularism. Drawing Embodied Secularism: Religion and Pedagogical Nationalism in Print Culture -- Gender, Displacement, and Ecologies of Loss in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Graphic Anthology This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition -- Photojournalism and Bearing Witness in Margaret Bourke-White's Photography -- Chapter 2: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Witnessing: Refugees, Literary Modernism, and the American Diaspora -- Disability, Patriarchal Violence, and Witnessing in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India -- Migration, Reproductive Femininity, and Citizenship in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers -- Citizenship and Expulsions in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness -- Media, Violence, and Reparations in the Conflict Zone -- Chapter 3: Melodrama, Community, and Diasporas in Popular Hindi and Accented Cinema. Asian Americans and Secular Crisis in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi-6 -- Surviving Gendered Citizenship and Death in Shyam Benegal's Mammo -- Indo-Pak Intimacy and Border-Crossings in Meghna Gulzar's Raazi and Kabir Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan -- Pakistan, Political Violence, and Failed Intimacies in Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani -- Conclusion: Performing the Secular, Inventing Peace -- Chapter 4: Transnational Asia, Testimony, and New Media -- Border-crossing Advertising: Google Inc. and Secular Intimacies in the Commercial "Reunion" (2013) -- Intergenerational Memories: Rebuilding Life, and Reckoning with Loss in Bombay, Pune, Hong Kong, Washington DC -- New Art and Digital Archive Memory Projects: Testimony and Peace -- Conclusion: Rethinking Mid-Twentieth Century Asia and The Present.

"Examines the literary and cultural archive of migration stories surrounding the 1947 Partition of India following Indian independence. Considers the representation of refugees, secularism, and gendered citizenship and how these narratives about migration and community influence and challenge dominant ideas about secularism and citizenship in India and the diaspora"--

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