TY - JOUR
KW - Delhi
KW - Diaspora
KW - Vassanji
KW - palimpsest architecture
KW - religion and architecture
AU - Shilpa Bhat
AB - 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.
DO - 10.1080/14755610.2020.1833057
M1 - 4
N1 - Publisher: Routledge
N2 - 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.
SP - 409
EP - 425
TI - Delhi, diaspora and religious consciousness: heritage and palimpsest architecture in M. G. Vassanji s A Place Within: Rediscovering India
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092341805&doi=10.1080%2f14755610.2020.1833057&partnerID=40&md5=462cecf219e065c44df8935f367c57fe
VL - 20
SN - 14755610 (ISSN)
ER -