Published in 2007 (TSAR Press), Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents an extravaganza of essays on globalization and contemporary Hindi cinema ("Bollywood"). The wide-ranging analytic strategies in the collection--including ethnographic self-reflection, literary comparison, economic contextualization, and biographic study--bear witness to Hindi cinema's aesthetically elaborate and politically entangled treatment of postcolonial concerns. Together, these essays […]
Published in 2003 (Arsenal Pulp), Desilicious: Sexy. Subversive. South Asian. is a collection of contemporary erotic writing by South Asian writers--typically young adults. The collection challenges polarized stereotypes of South Asian peoples as either hypersexual inheritors of the Kama Sutra or repressed victims of arranged marriages. The collection explores a range of culturally-mediated engagements with […]
Published in 2000, Bolo! Bolo! includes original poetry, prose fiction and narrative essays from over fifty "second-generation" South Asian Canadians and South Asian Americans. The collection's title, a Hindi colloquialism for "share your story," addressed the early paucity of diasporic literature available at the time by South Asian children and young people. Bolo! Bolo! focused […]