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DOI	10.1179/147757011X13177365537379
	'I thought you were a Mexican or something': Re/Visioning Borders of the Global South in Rakesh Roshan's Kites
	Banerjee, Anindita; Castillo, Debra
通讯作者	Banerjee, A
来源期刊	COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
ISSN	1477-5700
EISSN	1741-2676
出版年	2011
卷号	9 期号:4 页码:342-359
英文摘要	Despite histories that share a deep, wounded sensibility about borders, Mexico and India have relatively few overt meditations on potential parallels. This paper proposes to look at a 2010 Indian action film set in Las Vegas and Mexico featuring Bollywood mega-star Hrithik Roshan and the Mexican-Japanese-Uruguyan telenovela actress Barbara Mori - who play immigrants of Indian and Mexican descent in the United States. In the film, their star-crossed love takes the pair across the US-Mexico border, where at different times in the movie they find themselves negotiating legal systems (getting papers first from the United States, then Mexico), language barriers (the movie is about one-third each Spanish, English, and Hindi), and an evil casino owner's henchmen. We look at the film from a bifocal perspective, across the US-Mexican border, but also across cultural expectations around a series of differently weighted concepts in South Asian and US understandings, including the key title image of the kite, along with other images such as trains, deserts, names, and bodies. Our analysis challenges border studies with its predominant focus on the US-Mexico border and the postcolonial paradigm of encounters between the metropolis and the margin underlying investigations of diaspora, hybridity, and transnationalism.
英文关键词	Mexico India Pakistan US-Mexico border Partition trauma law diaspora globalization transnationalism
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000212478100005
WOS类目	Humanities, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/329660
作者单位	[Banerjee, Anindita; Castillo, Debra] Cornell Univ, Comparat Literature, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA; [Castillo, Debra] Cornell Univ, Hispan Studies, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Banerjee, Anindita,Castillo, Debra. 'I thought you were a Mexican or something': Re/Visioning Borders of the Global South in Rakesh Roshan's Kites[J],2011,9(4):342-359.
APA	Banerjee, Anindita,&Castillo, Debra.(2011).'I thought you were a Mexican or something': Re/Visioning Borders of the Global South in Rakesh Roshan's Kites.COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES,9(4),342-359.
MLA	Banerjee, Anindita,et al."'I thought you were a Mexican or something': Re/Visioning Borders of the Global South in Rakesh Roshan's Kites".COMPARATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES 9.4(2011):342-359.