Diaspora and memory : figures of displacement in contemporary literature, arts and politics /
Experiences of migration and dwelling-in-displacement impinge upon the lives of an ever increasing number of people worldwide, with business class comfort but more often with unrelenting violence. Since the early 1990s, the political and cultural realities of global migration have led to a growing i...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007
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| Series: | Thamyris intersecting ;
no. 13. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Diaspora and Memory. Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics; I; Figures of Diasporic Cultural Production: Some Entries from the Palestinian Lexicon; Comparing to Make Explicit: Diasporic Articulations of the Herero Communities in Namibia; Home or Away? On the Connotations of Homeland Imaginaries in Imbros; Longing for Home at Home: Armenians in Istanbul; Through the Lens of the Chronotope: Suggestions for a Spatio-Temporal Perspective on Diaspora; II; Diaspora and Nation: Migration into Other Pasts.
- Adopted Memory: The Holocaust, Postmemory, and Jewish Identity in AmericaMemory's Exiles; The Refusal to Mourn: Confronting the Facts of Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne; Testimonial Objects: Memory, Gender and Transmission; III; Imaginary Lands and Figures of Exile in Elia Kazan's AMERICA, AMERICA; The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in Present-day South Africa: André Brink's On the Contrary; Memory and Forgetting: Traces of Silence in Sarkis; Recollective Processes and the "Topography of Forgetting" in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz; The Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E.
- Fg; h; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; r; s; t; v; w; z.
