RUBY SIRCAR
Liquid Homelands, The Sonic Productions of Second Generation [South] Asian Women
Publications of the University of Fine Arts Vienna, Vol. 7
Engl., 170 p., numerous color images, 16,5 x 22 cm, paperback, 2008
ISBN 978-3-85160-118-3
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This essay is
an attempt to conceive a necessary step to be made by an emacipated
“second generation” diaspora on its way to independence,
no longer bound to the post-colonial and therefore not locality
defined. The “second generation” was able to create its
own self-definition, rooted within media and independent content,
and thus emancipated itself from geographical and racist or sexist
definitions; it is now no longer possible to keep on relating to
theoretical roots within presenting a contemorary perspective or
outlook.
Post-colonialism
is like a religious bind that can lo longer hold against long-needed
reforms. By trying to analyse and document the phenomenon of a “second
generation” that places itself and its cultural productions
and language within the liquid form of media, it is possible to
break this bind built on geographical heritage and ethnic parameters.