Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas

✍ Scribed by Michelle Keown, David Murphy, James Procter (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
European Tribes: Transcultural Diasporic Encounters....Pages 19-36
Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the ‘Diasporic’ Netherlands....Pages 37-55
Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Art: Gender, Genre and History....Pages 56-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
‘Naturally, I reject the term “diaspora”’: Said and Palestinian Dispossession....Pages 83-103
Latin Americans in London and the Dynamics of Diasporic Identities....Pages 104-124
Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland: The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia....Pages 125-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Exile, Incarceration and the Homeland: Jewish References in French Caribbean Novels....Pages 149-167
Vijay Singh’s Indo-Fijian Work Ethic: The Politics of Diasporic Definitions....Pages 168-188
French Atlantic Diasporas....Pages 189-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Postcolonial Transplants: Cinema, Diaspora and the Body Politic....Pages 211-227
Back Matter....Pages 228-230

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Postcolonial/World Literature; Migration; Cultural Studies; European Literature

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