Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families
Unfamiliar Ground
Edited by Ira Raja
To Be Published December 1st 2013 by Routledge – 176 pages
Description
Sociological studies on the Indian family have been mainly preoccupied with quantitative and morphological aspects of household form/composition, to the neglect of the more 'ineffable' dimensions of family life and relationships. The present volume brings together ten chapters with an interest in a more broadly-based reconstruction of the field of Indian family and kinship studies, including scholars from law, literature, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, queer theory, and Business Management.
Through a study of literary, cinematic, legal and cultural texts, this collection offers an understanding of the changing face of the Indian family, paying special attention to the family’s role as a provider of social security to its members, in normal or abnormal times; its part in the reproduction of class structures and values, whose perpetuation of gender differentiated access to familial resources serves as an important mechanism of sex role socialisation; and the articulation of sexuality in cultural texts ranging from children’s literature to contemporary cinema.
This book was published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
Contents
1. Suitable, Desirable or Dysfunctional? Family ties in Contemporary Indian English Fiction 2. Extended Families: Child, Mother and Guru in Dhan Gopal Mukerjee’s English books for children, 1920s -1930s 3. My brother’s Keeper: Regulation of the brother- sister relationship in the religious personal laws 4.Reimagining Conjugality: The Romance of Siblinghood in Bombay Cinema 5. Feminist Mothering: Sexuality, Safety and Risk in Two Indian Cities 6. White and Indian? Intermarriage and Narrative Authority in South Asian American Fiction 7. Generation, Family Values and the Ambivalent State: Indian Perspectives on Elder Care and the Life Course 8. Intergenerational Caregiving within the Family: Literary Perspectives 9. Migration and its Impact on South Asian Families: Legal Discourse and Cultural Expertise 10. Remittances as a Currency of Care: Contested Representations and the Idea of Family and Home
Author Bio
Ira Raja is Assistant Professor in English at the University of Delhi, India, and Research Associate, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, La Trobe University, Australia. She has edited Grey Areas: An Anthology of Indian Fiction on Ageing (2010), and with Kay Souter, An Endless Winter’s Night: Mother-Daughter Stories from India (2010).
Name: Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families: Unfamiliar Ground (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Ira Raja. Sociological studies on the Indian family have been mainly preoccupied with quantitative and morphological aspects of household form/composition, to the neglect of the more 'ineffable' dimensions of family life and relationships. The...
Categories: South Asian Culture & Society, Sociology of the Family, South Asian Literature, India (studies of), Asian Literature, Social Class, World Cinema