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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778467803321

Titolo

Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas [[electronic resource] /] / edited by M. Keown, D. Murphy, J. Procter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-33038-1

9786612330384

0-230-23278-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Literature—Philosophy

Literature   

Emigration and immigration

Popular culture - Study and teaching

European literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Postcolonial/World Literature

Migration

Cultural Studies

European Literature

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

European tribes : transnational diasporic encounters / John McLeod -- Postcolonial studies in the context of the "diasporic" Netherlands / Elleke Boehmer and Frances Gouda -- Transcultural encounters in contemporary art : gender, genre, and history / Siobhn Shilton -- "Naturally, I reject the term "diaspora"? : Said and Palestinian dispossession / Patrick Williams -- Latin Americans in London and the dynamics of diasporic identities / Patria Romn-Velazquez -- Constructing the metropolitan homeland : the literatures of the white settler societies of New Zealand and Australia / Janet Wilson -- Exile,



incarceration, and the homeland / Jewish References in French Caribbean novels / Celia Britton -- Vijay Singh's Indo-Fijian work ethic : the politics of diasporic definitions / Mohit Prasad -- French Atlantic diasporas / Bill Marshall -- Postcolonial transplants : cinema, diaspora, and the body politic / Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden.

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together a group of intellectuals from a number of disciplines, this collection breaks new ground within the field of postcolonial diaspora studies, moving beyond the Anglophone bias of much existing scholarship by investigating comparative links between a range of Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Neerlandophone cultural contexts.