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Addressing the complexities of Asian–Indigenous relationality through film and visual media, Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film provides a critical framework for engaging cinematic media to understand and imagine beyond the entrenched settler-colonial dynamics within Asian diasporic communities. While recognizing the pervasive violence of settler colonialism, Beenash Jafri maintains a hopeful outlook, showcasing how Asian diasporic filmmakers work toward decolonial worldmaking.

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Addressing the complexities of Asian–Indigenous relationality through film and visual media, Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film provides a critical framework for engaging cinematic media to understand and imagine beyond the entrenched settler-colonial dynamics within Asian diasporic communities. While recognizing the pervasive violence of settler colonialism, Beenash Jafri maintains a hopeful outlook, showcasing how Asian diasporic filmmakers work toward decolonial worldmaking.

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    Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film

    Beenash Jafri

    Addressing the complexities of Asian–Indigenous relationality through film and visual media, Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film provides a critical framework for engaging cinematic media to understand and imagine beyond the entrenched settler-colonial dynamics within Asian diasporic communities. While recognizing the pervasive violence of settler colonialism, Beenash Jafri maintains a hopeful outlook, showcasing how Asian diasporic filmmakers work toward decolonial worldmaking.

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  • Citation
    Beenash Jafri, Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film, Manifold ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/settler-attachments-and-asian-diasporic-film.
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    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Davis Library.

    Portions of chapter 3 were published in a different form in “Refusal/Film: Diasporic-Indigenous Relationalities,” Settler Colonial Studies 10, no. 1 (2020): 110–25; copyright 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group; available at https://www.tandfonline.com/.

    Excerpt from Kaushalya Bannerji, “Oka Nada,” A New Remembrance: Poems (Toronto: TSAR, 1993), 20, reprinted by permission of the poet. Excerpts from Vivek Shraya, “amiskwacîwâskahikan” and “indian,” from even this page is white (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016), reprinted by permission. Excerpt from Rajinderpal S. Pal, “Collective Amnesia,” Rungh Magazine 4, no. 1–2 (1998): 25; reprinted by permission of the poet.

    Copyright 2025 by Beenash Jafri

    Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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    978-1-4529-7263-3
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • restrictions
    Please see the Creative Commons website for details about the restrictions associated with the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
  • rights holder
    Beenash Jafri