Diaspora Literary Studies

Author : Sudesh Mishra
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629335
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora Criticism written by Sudesh Mishra and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first introduction to the field of Diaspora criticism that serves both as a timely guide and a rigorous critique. Diaspora criticism takes the concept 'diaspora' as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also offers an alternative to Postcolonial Studies. This book is the first to provide an accessible overview of the critical trends in Diaspora criticism and to critically evaluate the major Diaspora critics and their models, with the aim of adding to the debate on methodology.

Author : Sarah Ilott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786605171
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Diaspora Studies written by Sarah Ilott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The innovation of this volume lies in the interplay of both texts and theoretical insights from these different areas of cultural analysis, drawn together to probe diverse manifestations of diaspora while pointing out new directions of critique. Moving between representations of real and imaginary, violent and utopian, past, present and future diasporas, contributors demonstrate the ways in which authors, performers and artists are establishing new modes of representing and imagining diaspora in an increasingly globalised age. Contributions are organised into sections on performance, speculative fiction, city spaces, affective or violent diasporas, and silence and voice. Bringing together these wide-ranging histories, contexts and media allows for dialogue across vastly divergent experiences and representations of diaspora, and opens up a theoretical debate on the changing nature of this field of study.

Author : Maria Rubins
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787359417
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 written by Maria Rubins and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revolutionary exodus, Russian literature has thrived in multiple locations around the globe. What happens to cultural vocabularies, politics of identity, literary canon and language when writers transcend the metropolitan and national boundaries and begin to negotiate new experience gained in the process of migration? Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 sets a new agenda for the study of Russian diaspora writing, countering its conventional reception as a subsidiary branch of national literature and reorienting the field from an excessive emphasis on the homeland and origins to an analysis of transnational circulations that shape extraterritorial cultural practices. Integrating a variety of conceptual perspectives, ranging from diaspora and postcolonial studies to the theories of translation and self-translation, World Literature and evolutionary literary criticism, the contributors argue for a distinct nature of diasporic literary expression predicated on hybridity, ambivalence and a sense of multiple belonging. As the complementary case studies demonstrate, diaspora narratives consistently recode historical memory, contest the mainstream discourses of Russianness, rewrite received cultural tropes and explore topics that have remained marginal or taboo in the homeland. These diverse discussions are framed by a focused examination of diaspora as a methodological perspective and its relevance for the modern human condition.

Author : Brent Hayes EDWARDS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674034422
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Diaspora written by Brent Hayes EDWARDS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwards revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between the intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. He suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices through which black intellectuals pursue international alliances.

Author : Angela Naimou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108896928
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora and Literary Studies written by Angela Naimou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaspora is an ancient term that gained broad new significance in the twentieth century. At its simplest, diaspora refers to the geographic dispersion of a people from a common originary space to other sites. It pulls together ideas of people, movement, memory, and home, but also troubles them. In this volume, established and newer scholars provide fresh explorations of diaspora for twenty-first century literary studies. The volume re-examines major diaspora origin stories, theorizes diaspora through its conceptual intimacies and entanglements, and analyzes literary and visual-cultural texts to reimagine the genres, genders, and genealogies of diaspora. Literary mappings move across Africa, the Americas, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Pacific Islands, and through Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, Gulf, and Indian waters. Chapters reflect on diaspora as a key concept for migration, postcolonial, global comparative race, environmental, gender, and queer studies. The volume is thus an accessible and provocative account of diaspora as a vital resource for literary studies in a bordered world.

Author : David A. Wacks
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253015766
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature written by David A. Wacks and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland, Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers negotiated Jewish, Spanish, and diasporic idioms to produce a uniquely Sephardic perspective. Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time.

Author : Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317818202
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature written by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of ethnic experiences ranging from the Transatlantic, Asian American, Latino/a and Caribbean alongside their corresponding forms of displacement - political exile, war trauma, and economic migration - the essays in this collection connect the intimate experience of the returning subject to multiple locations, historical experiences, inter-subjective relations, and cultural interactions. They challenge the idea of the narrative of return as a journey back to the untouched roots and home that the ethnic subject left behind. Their diacritical approach combines, on the one hand, a sensitivity to the context and structural elements of modern diaspora; and on the other, an analysis of the individual psychological processes inherent to the experience of displacement and return such as nostalgia, memory and belonging. In the narratives of return analyzed in this volume, space and identity are never static or easily definable; rather, they are in-process and subject to change as they are always entangled in the historical and inter-subjective relations ensuing from displacement and mobility. This book will interest students and scholars who wish to further explore the role of American literature within current debates on globalization, migration, and ethnicity.

Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405182362
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora Literary Studies written by Ato Quayson and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though diasporas have existed since the dawn of documented history, the scholarly field of Diaspora Studies, marked by specific institutions, conferences, journals, and professional scholars, is of more recent vintage. Since the beginning of the 20th century and with varying historiographic emphases the field has been dominated by studies of the "classic" diasporas, namely the Jewish, Greek, Armenian, and African American. Yet over the past twenty or so years the term has been appropriated by newer groups for different forms of diasporic study. Such groups include the Chinese, the South Asian, the Irish, the Italian, the Caribbean, and various others. Different institutional, political, and historical factors pertaining to the consolidation of the position of various immigrant groups in the United States and in Europe have determined these shifting emphases. It is significant to note in this regard the role that donors with particular cultural leanings have had in setting up centers for studies of various diasporas in some of major universities in the US, Europe and elsewhere. The process is still continuing. Following the writings of cultural critics such as Arjun Appadurai, Robin Cohen, Avtar Brah, Stuart Hall, William Safran, James Clifford, Paul Gilroy and others there has also been an internal differentiation within Diaspora Studies between those that align it closely to analyses of migration and its impact on the nation-state and those who take a more culturalist and processual attitude toward describing the phenomenon. What has not yet been done is a careful exploration of the impact of diaspora and diasporization on the literary imagination. In fact, it is striking how much the field has been defined by the disciplines such as Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, and to a certain degree, History. There has not yet been a thorough and critical examination of diasporic literary writing and how this intersects with other kinds of writing in terms of content, genre, and thematic focus. Even though it proved a useful collection for teaching, Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur's 2003 Theorizing Diaspora does not contain a single chapter that attempts to theorize the field from a literary perspective. The proposed book would fill a very important gap in the field not only by providing a critical/theoretical overview of diasporic literary writing but by doing this in a comparative and interdisciplinary way, reading literary texts against visual representations, sociological accounts and historical interventions to generate a fuller and multi-stranded picture.

Author : Rey Chow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207852
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Diaspora written by Rey Chow and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an excellent example of its type."—Discourse & Society "I believe that Rey Chow has written a powerful set of essays which offer a critical strategy for approaching questions of otherness and other societies by forcing us to constantly reassess our position." —Harry Harootunian Writing Diaspora questions aspects of cultural politics, including the legacies of European imperialism and colonialism, the media, pedagogy, literature, literacy, sexuality, intellectual labor, the uses and abuses of theory, and popularized notions about "others."

Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139486713
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature written by Yogita Goyal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita Goyal analyzes the tensions between romance and realism in the literature of the African diaspora, examining a remarkably diverse group of twentieth-century authors, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Chinua Achebe, Richard Wright, Ama Ata Aidoo and Caryl Phillips. Shifting the center of black diaspora studies by considering Africa as constitutive of black modernity rather than its forgotten past, Goyal argues that it is through the figure of romance that the possibility of diaspora is imagined across time and space. Drawing on literature, political history and postcolonial theory, this significant addition to the cross-cultural study of literatures will be of interest to scholars of African American studies, African studies and American literary studies.