Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered

Published by Rutgers University Press 2008

Aftermaths

Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered

Edited by: Marcus Bullock and Peter Y. Paik

In the series New Directions in International Studies

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813545981

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About this book

Aftermaths is a collection of essays offering compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora that have emerged in the global age. The ten contributors—well-established scholars and promising new voices—work in different disciplines and draw from diverse backgrounds as they present rich case studies from around the world. In seeking fresh perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, the essays included here look to the power of the aesthetic experience, especially in literature and film, to unsettle existing theoretical paradigms and enable the rethinking of conventionalized approaches.

Marcus Bullock and Peter Y. Paik, in bringing this collection together, show we have reached a moment in history when it is imperative to question prevailing intellectual models. The interconnectedness of the world's economies, the contributors argue, can exacerbate existing antagonisms or create new ones. With essays by Ihab Hassan, Paul Brodwin, and Helen Fehervary, among others, Aftermaths engages not only with important academic topics but also with the leading political issues of the day.

Author / Editor information

Marcus Bullock is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Romanticism and Marxism and The Violent Eye, and coeditor of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings vol. I: 1913–1926.

Peter Y. Paik is an assistant professor in the department of French, Italian, and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Reviews

A volume that is at once sophisticated and readable, pushing at the boundaries of common conclusions about globalization, immigration, and diaspora.

— Caroline Levine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Peter Y. Paik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Exile as Origin
Tales of Migration from Central America and Central Europe Helen Fehervary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
What They Left Behind — The Irish Landscape after Emigration Andrew Kincaid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
II. The Spirituality of Exile
The Dialectic of Marginality in the Haitian Community of Guadeloupe, French West Indies Paul Brodwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
On the Metaphysics of Exile Stefan Rossbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
III. Diasporas and the Reinvention of the Local
Pays rêvé, pays réel — Créolité and Its Diasporas Natalie Melas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Criticism, Exile, Ireland Conor McCarthy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Edwidge Danticat’s Latinidad — The Farming of Bones and the Cultivation (of Fields) of Knowledge Ricardo Ortiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
IV. Migrant Fantasies
The Great Migration Elsewhere Zoran Samardzija Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Bending It Like Beckham — Sex, Soccer, and Traveling Indians K. E. Supriya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Coming to the Antipodes — Migrancy, Travel, Homecoming Ihab Hassan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Afterword — The Dialectics of Identity Marcus Bullock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 266

eBook

Published: November 20, 2008
ISBN: 9780813545981