New directions in diaspora studies : cultural and literary approaches / edited by Sarah Ilott, Ana Cristina Mendes, and Lucinda Newns.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ilott, Sarah, 1987- (Editor)
Mendes, Ana Cristina (Editor)
Newns, Lucinda (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London ; Lanham, Maryland, USA : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., 2018.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Ethnicity > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Physical Description:xxxiii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : new directions, new approaches / Ana Cristina Mendes, Lucinda Newns, and Sarah Ilott
  • Transcultural performance in diasporic contexts : spectating otherness at home and abroad / Miki Flockemann
  • Performing street art : CityLeaks, affiliation, and transcultural diaspora / Cathy Covell Waegner
  • Mythology of the space frontier : diaspora, liminality, and the practices of remembrance in Nalo Hopkinson's midnight robber / Agnieszka Podruczna
  • Speculative diasporas : Hari Kunzru's historical consciousness, the rhetoric of interplanetary colonization, and the locus-colonial novel / Rachel Rochester
  • Diasporic ways of knowing : Teju Cole's open city / Christiane Steckenbiller
  • Emotional geographies of London : Doris Lessing's diasporic vision / Ágnes Györke
  • Everyday emotions and migration : affect in Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Sibyl Adam
  • British new slaveries in Chris Cleave's The other hand and Caryl Phillips's In the falling snow : diachronic and synchronic reflections / Pietro Deandrea
  • Gendered silence in transnational narratives / Karen D'Souza.