Acknowledgments
Introduction
Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Part 1: Transnational Culture and Contexts
Chapter 1:Gurinder Chadha as a Scriptwriter: the Auteur in Dialogue with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices
Cristina M. Gámez Fernández
Chapter 2: Gurinder Chadha: BrAsian Inroads into Planetarity
Alejandra Moreno Álvarez and Jorge Diego Sanchez
Chapter 3: Diasporic Crosscurrents: Gurinder Chadha and Mira Nair's Early Documentaries
Amardeep Singh
Part 2: Power, Perspectives and Cultural Representations
Chapter 4: ‘You may as well please yourself’: Resistance and Narrative Hegemony in the Films of Gurinder Chadha
Setara Pracha
Chapter 5: The Politics of the Possible in Gurinder Chadha’s “Quais de Seine”
Lara V. Kattekola
Chapter 6: Generation Matters: Diasporic Reality and Myth-Making in Gurinder Chadha’s Acting Our Age and What’s Cooking?
Izabella Kimak
Part 3: Socio-Cultural Spaces and Multicultural Negotiations
Chapter 7: Salad or Soup?: Feasts of Feminism and Multiculturalism in Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking?
Reshmi Hebbar
Chapter 8: Negotiating Belonging: Multicultural education in the films of Gurinder Chadha
Susan Flynn
Chapter 9: Darkness on the Edge of Town: Growing up in the Suburbs in Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife and Blinded by the Light
Lauren Bettridge
Chapter 10: A Negotiation of ‘home’ in Gurinder Chadha’s film Bend It Like Beckham
J. Sunita Peacock
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