Diaspora, Law and Literature

✍ Scribed by Klaus Stierstorfer (editor), Daniela Carpi (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 368
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Diaspora Studies have emerged to study the changing patterns of global migration and home making. This volume offers new perspectives on this highly relevant field of research by integrating both legal and literary aspects, questions and methodologies in the study of diasporas and migration.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Exploring the Interface of Diaspora, Law and Literature
Diaspora, the West and the Law
Towards a Grammar of the Multiverse
Close Encounters of the ‘Third’ Kind
Fair Hearing and Fair Play in Multicultural Societies
Critical Subjects of Belonging
Theorizing Reflexivity in Literature, Law and Diaspora
Overlapping Sovereignties
The Old Armenian Lawcode of Lemberg
Fabian Wittreck
Cultural Mobility and Diaspora: The Case of Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock
Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Diasporic Fragments Coalescing: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
The Indian Diaspora and Laws
Articulations Across Diaspora, Law and Literature
Queer Diasporas? Literary Diaspora Studies and the Law
Unaccustomed Earth: Diaspora on the Developing Reel
Melancholic Face-Off: Caryl Phillips’ Elegy over David Oluwale
Contributors
Index of names

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