| Description |
1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Thamyris, intersecting place, sex and race,
1381-1312 ;
no. 13
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Thamyris intersecting ; no. 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Diaspora and Memory. Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics; I; Figures of Diasporic Cultural Production: Some Entries from the Palestinian Lexicon; Comparing to Make Explicit: Diasporic Articulations of the Herero Communities in Namibia; Home or Away? On the Connotations of Homeland Imaginaries in Imbros; Longing for Home at Home: Armenians in Istanbul; Through the Lens of the Chronotope: Suggestions for a Spatio-Temporal Perspective on Diaspora; II; Diaspora and Nation: Migration into Other Pasts. |
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Adopted Memory: The Holocaust, Postmemory, and Jewish Identity in AmericaMemory's Exiles; The Refusal to Mourn: Confronting the Facts of Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne; Testimonial Objects: Memory, Gender and Transmission; III; Imaginary Lands and Figures of Exile in Elia Kazan's AMERICA, AMERICA; The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in Present-day South Africa: André Brink's On the Contrary; Memory and Forgetting: Traces of Silence in Sarkis; Recollective Processes and the "Topography of Forgetting" in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz; The Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E. |
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Fg; h; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; r; s; t; v; w; z. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. |
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Emigration and immigration in literature. |
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Emigration and immigration in art.
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Emigration and immigration in art. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Baronian, Marie-Aude.
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Besser, Stephan.
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Jansen, Yolande.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Diaspora and memory. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007 9042021292 9789042021297 (OCoLC)94588803 |
| ISBN |
9781429481472 (electronic book) |
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1429481471 (electronic book) |
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9789401203807 |
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9401203806 |
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9042021292 |
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9789042021297 |
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