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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782793203321

Titolo

Aftermaths [[electronic resource] ] : exile, migration, and diaspora reconsidered / / edited by Marcus Bullock and Peter Y. Paik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-281-95877-8

9786611958770

0-8135-4598-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

New directions in international studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BullockMarcus Paul <1944->

PaikPeter Yoonsuk

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Paik, Peter Y. -- I. Exile as Origin -- Tales of Migration from Central America and Central Europe / Fehervary, Helen -- What They Left Behind - The Irish Landscape after Emigration / Kincaid, Andrew -- II. The Spirituality of Exile -- The Dialectic of Marginality in the Haitian Community of Guadeloupe, French West Indies / Brodwin, Paul -- On the Metaphysics of Exile / Rossbach, Stefan -- III. Diasporas and the Reinvention of the Local -- Pays rêvé, pays réel - Créolité and Its Diasporas / Melas, Natalie -- Criticism, Exile, Ireland / McCarthy, Conor -- Edwidge Danticat's Latinidad - The Farming of Bones and the Cultivation (of Fields) of Knowledge / Ortiz, Ricardo -- IV. Migrant Fantasies -- The Great Migration Elsewhere / Samardzija, Zoran -- Bending It Like Beckham - Sex, Soccer, and Traveling Indians / Supriya, K. E. -- Coming to the Antipodes - Migrancy, Travel, Homecoming / Hassan, Ihab -- Afterword - The Dialectics of Identity / Bullock, Marcus -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Aftermaths is a collection of essays offering compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora that have emerged in the global age. The ten contributors-well-established scholars and promising new voices-



work in different disciplines and draw from diverse backgrounds as they present rich case studies from around the world. In seeking fresh perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, the essays included here look to the power of the aesthetic experience, especially in literature and film, to unsettle existing theoretical paradigms and enable the rethinking of conventionalized approaches. Marcus Bullock and Peter Y. Paik, in bringing this collection together, show we have reached a moment in history when it is imperative to question prevailing intellectual models. The interconnectedness of the world's economies, the contributors argue, can exacerbate existing antagonisms or create new ones. With essays by Ihab Hassan, Paul Brodwin, and Helen Fehervary, among others, Aftermaths engages not only with important academic topics but also with the leading political issues of the day.