Diaspora and Literary Studies

Introduction: Diaspora and Literary Studies Angela Naimou; PART I. ORIGINS REVISITED: 1. Displaced in Diaspora? Jewish Communities in the Greco-Roman World Erich S. Gruen; 2. Interoceanic Relational Diasporas: A Caribbean Perspective Supriya Nair; 3. The Language of Lakay: Diaspora as Project and Process in Haitian Cultural Production Regine Jean-Charles; 4. The Insufficiency of Paradigms: Diaspora in South Asian Literature Sangeeta Ray; 5. Lynchpins of Sovereignty: Forced Removal and the Deportspora Imaginary Mary Pat Brady; 6. Afro-Futurist Speculations and Diaspora Yogita Goyal; PART II. MAJOR CONCEPTS IN RELATION: 7. The Shock of Relation: Queer Diasporas in Law and Literature Mrinalini Chakravorty; 8. Strangers and Brothers: James Baldwin's Encounters with Africa Laila Amine; 9. Incommensurability, Inextricability, Entanglement: Stuart Hall and the Question of Palestine Keith P. Feldman; 10. Radical Black Poetics and South-South Movement Walt Hunter; 11. Remembering the Uses of Diaspora, or Palestine is Still the Issue Anthony Alessandrini; 12. Refugee Ecologies: Narratives of Water in Vietnamese Diaspora Marguerite Nguyen; 13. Diaspora and Detention: Behrouz Boochani, Manus Prison and Genres of the Borderscape Jini Kim Watson; Part III. READINGS in Genre, Gender,and GENEALOGIES: 14. Transpacific Noir Jinah Kim; 15. From Nothing to Something: Black Speculative Fiction and the Trayvon Generation Justin L. Mann; 16. Biological and Narrative Reproduction in the Family-saga Novels of Maryse Conde Rachel L. Mordecai; 17. The Embodied Feminist Futures of Diaspora Samantha Pinto; 18. Of Origin and Opportunity: Co-narratives of Refugitude in Roxane Gay's Ayiti Lauren K. Alleyne; 19. Arabic Diasporic Literary Trajectories: Reinvented Magical Realisms, Biopolitical Ruptures, and Planetarity Rita Sakr; 20. Decolonizing Across Borders: Diasporic-Indigenous Encounters and the Predicaments of Arrival Nadine Attewell.