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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464602003321

Titolo

Post-national enquiries [[electronic resource] ] : essays on ethnic and racial border crossings / / edited by Jopi Nyman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

ISBN

1-282-41461-5

9786612414619

1-4438-1561-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NymanJopi <1966->

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration in literature

Emigration and immigration in art

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Crossing racial boundaries -- pt. II. Encounters with whiteness -- pt. III. Sites and practices of border -- pt. IV. Bharati Mukherjee's border crossings.

Sommario/riassunto

The studies collected in this volume address a variety of cultural narratives of diverse border crossings. Through their focus on various historical and contemporary border phenomena in Europe and the United States, the essays show that the border-crossing migrant challenges the view that people belong to one particular nation-state and culture. The essays in the first part of the volume explore of the problematics of "race" in theoretical and practical border crossings including the theorie...