Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas

✍ Scribed by Michelle Keown, David Murphy, James Procter

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited collection breaks new ground within the field of postcolonial diaspora studies, moving beyond the predominantly Anglophone bias of much existing scholarship by investigating comparative links between a range of Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Neerlandophone cultural contexts. Ranging across the disciplines of history, sociology, literary analysis, cultural studies and the visual arts, the collection examines both the contributions and limitations of existing postcolonial diaspora scholarship, as well as developing new cross-disciplinary theoretical paradigms. Exploring a variety of geographical locations including Europe, the Americas, the Pacific and the Middle East, the collection is divided into three main sections: 'Discovering Europe' (with essays by John McLeod, Elleke Boehmer and Frances Gouda, and Siobh?n Shilton); 'Nostalgia and the Longing for Home' (featuring Patrick Williams, Patria Rom?n-Vel?squez and Janet Wilson); and 'Comparative Diasporic Contexts' (with contributions from Celia Britton, Mohit Prasad and Bill Marshall), concluding with a postscript by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
List of Plates and Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas......Page 18
Section 1 Discovering Europe......Page 34
1 European Tribes: Transcultural Diasporic Encounters......Page 36
2 Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the ‘Diasporic’ Netherlands......Page 54
3 Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Art: Gender, Genre and History......Page 73
Section 2 Nostalgia and Longing for ‘Home’......Page 98
4 ‘Naturally, I reject the term "diaspora"': Said and Palestinian Dispossession......Page 100
5 Latin Americans in London and the Dynamics of Diasporic Identities......Page 121
6 Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland: The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia......Page 142
Section 3 Comparative Diasporic Contexts......Page 164
7 Exile, Incarceration and the Homeland: Jewish References in French Caribbean Novels......Page 166
8 Vijay Singh’s Indo-Fijian Work Ethic: The Politics of Diasporic Definitions......Page 185
9 French Atlantic Diasporas......Page 206
Postscript......Page 226
10 Postcolonial Transplants: Cinema, Diaspora and the Body Politic......Page 228
F......Page 245
R......Page 246
W......Page 247