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Diaspora and literary studies / [edited by] Angela Naimou.

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"This volume provides fresh explorations of diaspora and its renewed critical edge for twenty-first century literary studies. It re-examines major diaspora origin stories, theorizes diaspora through its conceptual entanglements, and analyzes literary and visual cultural texts to reimagine the g...

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Other Authors: Naimou, Angela (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:Cambridge critical concepts.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : diaspora and literary studies / Angela Naimou
  • Displaced in diaspora? Jewish communities in the Greco-Roman world/ Erich S. Gruen
  • Interoceanic relational diasporas : a Caribbean perspective / Supriya Nair
  • The language of Lakay : diaspora as project and process in Haitian cultural production / Régine Jean- Régine Jean-Charles Charles
  • The insufficiency of paradigms : diaspora in South Asian literature / Sangeeta Ray
  • Lynchpins of sovereignty : forced removal and the deportspora imaginary / Mary Pat Brady
  • Afro-futurist speculations and diaspora / Yogita Goyal
  • The shock of relation : queer diasporas in law and literature / Mrinalini Chakravorty
  • Strangers and brothers : James Baldwin's encounters with Africa / Laila Amine
  • Incommensurability, inextricability, entanglement : Stuart Hall and the question of Palestine / Keith P. Feldman
  • Radical Black poetics and south-South movement / Walt Hunter
  • Remembering the uses of diaspora, or Palestine is still the issue / Anthony Alessandrini
  • Refugee ecologies : narratives of water in Vietname diaspora / Marguerite Nguyen
  • Diaspora and detention : Behrouz Boochani, Manus prison and genre son and genres of the borderscape / Jini Kim Watson
  • Transpacific noir / Jinah Kim
  • From nothing to something : Black speculative fiction and the Trayvon generation / Justin L. Mann Justin L. Mann
  • Biological and narrative reproduction in the family-saga novels of Maryse Condé / Rachel L. Mordecai
  • The embodied feminist futures of diaspora / Samantha Pinto
  • Of origin and opportunity : co-narratives of refugitude in Roxane Gay's Ayiti / Lauren K. Alleyne Lauren K. Alleyne
  • Arabic diasporic literary trajectories : reinvented magical realisms, biopolitical ruptures, and planetarity / Rita Sakr
  • Decolonizing across borders : diasporic-indigenous indigenous encounters and the predicaments of arrival / Nadine Attewell.

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