ISBN:
9780813545981
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0813545986
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 254 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
New directions in international studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Aftermaths
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Emigration and immigration Economic aspects
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Emigration and immigration Social aspects
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Emigration and immigration Economic aspects
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Emigration and immigration Social aspects
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Emigration and immigration Social aspects
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Emigration and immigration Economic aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects
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Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Aftermaths offers compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora. Ten contributors-well-established scholars and promising new voices-working in different disciplines and drawing from diverse backgrounds present rich case studies from around the world. Seeking fresh perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, the essays take on a wide range of subjects such as the influence of religion upon diasporic consciousness, the conflict between the local and the transnational, the fate of historical tragedy in globalization, the reinvention of social bonds across migrations, and the agoni
Abstract:
Introduction /Peter Y. Paik --Tales of migration from central America and central Europe /Helen Fehervary --What they left behind : the Irish landscape after emigration /Andrew Kincaid --The dialectic of marginality in the Haitian community of Guadeloupe, French West Indies /Paul Brodwin --On the metaphysics of exile /Stefan Rossbach --Pays rêvé, pays reel : créolité and its diasporas /Natalie Melas --Criticism, exile, Ireland /Conor McCarthy --Edwidge Danticat's Latinidad : the farming of bones and the cultivation (of fields) of knowledge /Richard Ortiz --The great migration elsewhere /Zoran Samardzija --Bending it like Beckham : sex, soccer, and traveling Indians /K.E. Supriya --Coming to the antipodes : migrancy, travel, homecoming /Ihab Hassan --Afterword : the dialectics of identity /Marcus Bullock.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Introduction
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Tales of migration from central America and central Europe
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What they left behind : the Irish landscape after emigration
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The dialectic of marginality in the Haitian community of Guadeloupe, French West Indies
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On the metaphysics of exile
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Pays rêvé, pays reel : créolité and its diasporas
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Criticism, exile, Ireland
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Edwidge Danticat's Latinidad : the farming of bones and the cultivation (of fields) of knowledge
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The great migration elsewhere
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Bending it like Beckham : sex, soccer, and traveling Indians
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Coming to the antipodes : migrancy, travel, homecoming
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Afterword : the dialectics of identity
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