Delhi, diaspora and religious consciousness

Heritage and palimpsest architecture in M. G. Vassanji’s A Place Within: Rediscovering India

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ID11763553
AuthorsShilpa Daithota Bhat (0000-0002-1330-8130, Communication Area, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume20
Issue4
Pages409-425
Publication date2019-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture and Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1475-5610 • E-ISSN: 1475-5629
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14755610.2020.1833057
OpenAlexW3092885260
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited27

Intangible heritage and architecture, articulate specific cultural processes and history. In Vassanji’s non-fictional narrative A Place Within: Rediscovering India, there is place-making through the lens of culture, religion, history, politics and migration. Positioning himself as a tourist to his ancestral homeland, the author makes observations that can be critiqued through the concept of ‘palimpsest’ – an intriguing ‘layering’ that gesture at wider circuits of culture. This study is an examination of the diasporic consciousness, religious encounters; heritage narrative features, the tracing of overlapping cultural spheres in Delhi, aesthetic and political tensions, as represented in Vassanji’s narrative. The article is an exploration of a broad system of cultural and religious discursive constructions and practices in architecture, as suggested in the non-fictional narrative

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Consciousness · Diaspora · Epistemology · Palimpsest · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Religious studies · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Architecture

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