ISBN:
9781429481472
,
1429481471
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (207 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Thamyris, intersecting place, sex and race 1381-1312 no. 13
Series Statement:
Thamyris, intersecting place, sex and race no. 13
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Diaspora and memory
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Emigration and immigration Social aspects
;
Emigration and immigration in literature
;
Emigration and immigration in art
;
Emigration and immigration Social aspects
;
Emigration and immigration in literature
;
Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects
;
Diaspora
;
Geheugen
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
;
Emigration and immigration in art
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Adopted Memory: The Holocaust, Postmemory, and Jewish Identity in AmericaMemory's Exiles; The Refusal to Mourn: Confronting the Facts of Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne; Testimonial Objects: Memory, Gender and Transmission; III; Imaginary Lands and Figures of Exile in Elia Kazan's AMERICA, AMERICA; The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in Present-day South Africa: André Brink's On the Contrary; Memory and Forgetting: Traces of Silence in Sarkis; Recollective Processes and the "Topography of Forgetting" in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz; The Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E.
Abstract:
Experiences of migration and dwelling-in-displacement impinge upon the lives of an ever increasing number of people worldwide, with business class comfort but more often with unrelenting violence. Since the early 1990s, the political and cultural realities of global migration have led to a growing interest in the different forms of "diasporic" existence and identities. The articles in this book do not focus on the external boundaries of diaspora - what is diasporic and what is not? - but on one of its most important internal boundaries, which is indicated by the second term in the title of thi
Abstract:
Fg; h; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; r; s; t; v; w; z.
Abstract:
Introduction: Diaspora and Memory. Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics; I; Figures of Diasporic Cultural Production: Some Entries from the Palestinian Lexicon; Comparing to Make Explicit: Diasporic Articulations of the Herero Communities in Namibia; Home or Away? On the Connotations of Homeland Imaginaries in Imbros; Longing for Home at Home: Armenians in Istanbul; Through the Lens of the Chronotope: Suggestions for a Spatio-Temporal Perspective on Diaspora; II; Diaspora and Nation: Migration into Other Pasts.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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