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UNINA9910781884303321 |
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Wise Amanda |
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Exile and Return Among the East Timorese / / Amanda Wise |
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Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] |
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©2006 |
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1-283-21214-5 |
9786613212146 |
0-8122-0392-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Return migration - Timor-Leste |
East Timorese - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.) |
Exiles - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.) - Social conditions |
Exiles - Timor-Leste |
Political refugees - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.) - Social conditions |
Political refugees - Timor-Leste |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: "We can't hang Xanana there!" On the Politics of Representing Community -- Chapter 1 East Timor: A History of the Present -- Chapter 2 Leaving the Crocodile: The East Timorese Community in Sydney -- Chapter 3 Nation, Transnation, Diaspora: Locating East Timorese Long Distance Nationalism -- Chapter 4 Embodying Exile: Embodied Memory and the Role of Trauma, Affect, Politics, and Religion in the Formation of Identities in Exile -- Chapter 5 Locating East Timoreseness in Australia: Layers of Hybridity, Anchored and Enmeshed -- Chapter 6 From Exile to Diaspora? On Identity, Belonging, and the (Im)Possibility of Return Home -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Independence Day: Looking to the Future -- Afterword: January 2005 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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East Timor, the world's newest nation, finally gained its independence |
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in 2002, following half a millennium of Portuguese rule and 24 years of Indonesian occupation. That occupation produced a refugee diaspora spread between Portugal and Australia that has been integral in advancing East Timor's cause abroad. Because East Timorese in the diaspora identified strongly as exiles and invested so much in pursuing East Timor's independence, the homeland's liberation has complicated the very basis on which many have "imagined" themselves since fleeing to Australia.Wise interrogates the space after exile for members of the East Timorese diaspora in Australia, in dialogue with key debates on diasporic identities within cultural studies, contemporary anthropology, and cultural geography. Drawing on innovative ethnographic research, explores questions of shifting identity and home, trauma and embodiment, belonging and return among the East Timorese abroad at this critical juncture in their lives. The book asks what forms of cultural identity emerge among politically active refugee diasporas, what happens to such groups when the dream of homeland is fulfilled, and how they renegotiate a sense of home after exile.The lived experience of Timorese in Australia and former refugees who have returned to East Timor is brought to life through their eloquent and often moving firsthand narratives, which the author has used liberally throughout the book, vividly presenting them alongside images and analysis of their role in the political struggle.Providing unique insights into cultural identities in the transition from exile to diaspora in a post-refugee group, is essential reading for anyone interested in questions of home and identity among diasporic, transnational, and refugee communities. |
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UNINA9910777856903321 |
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Autore |
Kernan Alvin B |
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The fruited plain [[electronic resource] ] : fables for a postmodern democracy / / Alvin Kernan |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002 |
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1-281-72172-7 |
9786611721725 |
0-300-12834-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 260 p.)) |
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Humorous stories, American |
Domestic fiction, American |
Satire, American |
Fables, American |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Machine generated contents note: Preface ix -- ONE -- Merry Xmas from the Joads 1 -- TWO -- Majoring in Deconstruction 19 -- THREE -- Religion USA 50 -- FOUR -- Art Lets It All Hang Out 75 -- FIVE -- The Politics Gene 98 -- SIX -- Klutz-Brightgrin H.R. 1984- -- The John Quincy Thud On-Line Biography -- of Great Americans 125 -- SEVEN -- Poshpenny v. Lone Tree State 153 -- EIGHT -- A Long Way Up the Arroyo 178 -- NINE -- Operation Gulliver 205 -- TEN -- Virtual America 227 -- Selected Items from the On-Line Biography -- of Great Americans 251. |
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The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social |
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institutions in perplexing disarray.In ten satiric episodes, Kernan visits virtually every important American institution-the family, education, religion, art, the military, law courts, sex, science and medicine, politics, and not least television and its advertisements. Unsparing with his barbs, he reveals both the fools and the knaves among us. Kernan's modern-day Joads find themselves in a distorted world where a surplus of democracy not only fails to free its inhabitants but also makes them vulnerable to the machinations of greedy and unscrupulous exploiters. Echoing the voices of such other provocative wits as Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe, Kernan will make you laugh at the absurdity of American culture and-in all likelihood-at yourself. |
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