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Diaspora and memory : figures of displacement in contemporary literature, arts and politics / edited by Marie-Aude Baronian, Stephan Besser and Yolande Jansen

Baronian, Marie-Aude ; Besser, Stephan ; Jansen, Yolande,i1970-

Amsterdam [u.a.] : Rodopi, 2007

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (207 pages) : Illustrations

Thamyris, intersecting place, sex and race ; no. 13

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4294-8147-2 ; 1-4294-8147-1 ; 978-94-012-0380-7 ; 94-012-0380-6 ; 90-420-2129-2

EC 5410 BD 7680 HD 300

 

f Aufsatzsammlung  Vertreibung, Motiv  Literatur  Kunst 

Experiences of migration and dwelling-in-displacement impinge upon the lives of an ever increasing number of people worldwide, with business class comfort but more often with unrelenting violence. Since the early 1990s, the political and cultural realities of global migration have led to a growing interest in the different forms of "diasporic" existence and identities. The articles in this book do not focus on the external boundaries of diaspora - what is diasporic and what is not? - but on one of its most important internal boundaries, which is indicated by the second term in the title of thi.