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New Directions in Diaspora Studies : Cultural and Literary Approaches

Mendes, Ana Cristina [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Newns, Lucinda [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender]

1st ed.

London : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018 [©2018]

1 online resource (201 pages)

Englisch

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978-1-78660-517-7

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LOC-SH: Emigration and immigration-Social aspects.. ; Ethnicity-Social aspects.. ; Emigration and immigration in literature.. ; Ethnicity in literature

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.

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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.