Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores the myriad aspects of identity formation and identity representation in an increasingly globalized world. Covering a variety of cultural and historical experiences in addition to several texts of world literatures, the contributors discuss the configurations of transnationality and transculturality in our postcolonial and globalized world. Acknowledging that nationality, ethnicity, gender, and class are continually shaped by historical processes, the contributors hone in on the ways that the increase in mobility via migration, diaspora, and exile render identities always in transit In the face of structural inequalities and social injustices predominant in this context, the chapters reflect on the moral obligations of representation. This collection will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments‌‌‌‌
Introduction
Identities in Transit: Self, Nation beyond “Imperial Globality”
Be-coming a Rhizome
Belonging and (Un)belonging in The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei, Memories of Peking: Sout
Resisting Hegemonic Discourses in Abdelhak Serhane’s Novels
Identity Crisis, Retaliation, and Deliberations of Women
Across Borders and Thresholds: Identities in Diaspora Narratives
The National and the Transnational
Clandestine Bodies in Transit
“Dwelling Unconnected” and Claiming Space
Conflicts and Configurations in a Liminal Space
Alien . . . Arab . . . and Maybe Illegal in America‌‌‌‌
Zighen Aymʼs Still Moments
The Ethics and Politics of Representation
The African on Hegel’s “Threshold of the World’s History”
A Modern Moroccan Eye on the West
Staging the Chronicle:  The Transfer and Reevaluation of Discourse
Writing the Refugee Experience for Middle Grade and Young Adult Readers
When East Meets West in “Victoria and Abdul”
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
About the Contributors