Delhi, diaspora and religious consciousness: heritage and palimpsest architecture in M. G. Vassanji’s A Place Within: Rediscovering India

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 a...

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1. VerfasserIn: Bhat, Shilpa Daithota (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Taylor and Francis Group 2019
In: Culture and religion
Jahr: 2019, Band: 20, Heft: 4, Seiten: 409-425
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Vassanji, M. G. 1950-, A place within / Delhi / Architektur / Palimpsest / Kultur / Religiöses Bewusstsein
RelBib Classification:AE Religionspsychologie
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
KBM Asien
weitere Schlagwörter:B palimpsest architecture
B Delhi
B religion and architecture
B Vassanji
B Diaspora
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1475-5629
Enthält:Enthalten in: Culture and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2020.1833057