ISBN:
9781786605177
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Emigration and immigration-Social aspects..
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Ethnicity-Social aspects..
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Emigration and immigration in literature..
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Ethnicity in literature
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Performance -- 1 Transcultural Performance in Diasporic Contexts -- 2 Performing Street Art -- Part II: Speculative Diasporas -- 3 Mythology of the Space Frontier -- 4 Speculative Diasporas -- Part III: City Spaces -- 5 Diasporic Ways of Knowing -- 6 Emotional Geographies of London -- 7 Everyday Emotions and Migration -- Part IV: Precarious and Silent Diasporas -- 8 British New Slaveries in Chris Cleave's The Other Hand and Caryl Phillips's In the Falling Snow -- 9 Gendered Silence in Transnational Narratives -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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