ISBN:
9780231150910
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (329 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Gender and Culture Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rites of Return : Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Collective memory and literature
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Feminist literary criticism
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Return in literature
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Discourse analysis, Narrative
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Poetics
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the widespread effects of a legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. This collection of original essays devoted to feminist diasporic studies maps bold and broad-based responses to past injury across Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States. It examines new technologies of genetic and genealogical research, memoirs about lost family histories, the popularity of root
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I Tangled Roots and New Genealogies; 1. The Factness of Diaspora: The Social Sources of Genetic Genealogy; 2. Jews-Lost and Found: Genetic History and the Evidentiary Terrain of Recognition; 3. The Web and the Reunion; 4. Queering Roots, Queering Diaspora; 5. Indigenous Australian Arts of Return: Mediating Perverse Archives; Part II Genres of Return; 6. Memoirs of Return; 7. Return to Half-Ruins: Fathers and Daughters, Memory and History in Palestine; 8. Singing with the Taxi Driver: From Bollywood to Babylon; 9. Off -Modern Homecoming in Art and Theory
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Return to Nicaragua: The Aftermath of HopePart III Rights of Return; 11. Between Two Returns; 12. Adoption and Return: Transnational Genealogies, Maternal Legacies; 13. Foreign Correspondence; 14. "O Give Me a Home"; 15. The Politics of Return: When Rights Become Rites; Part IV. Sites of Return and the New Tourism of Witness; 16. Sites of Conscience: Lighting Up Dark Tourism; 17. Kishinev Redux: Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony; 18. Trauma as Durational Performance: A Return to Dark Sites; 19. Pilgrimages, Reenactment, and Souvenirs: Modes of Memory Tourism; Contributors; Index;
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