New Routes for Diaspora Studies
Published on 11. July 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-0-253-00210-5 (ISBN)
Description
Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the U.S., the contributors interrogate ideas of displacement, return, and place of origin as they relate to diasporic identity. They also consider how practices of commensality become grounds for examining identity and difference and how narrative and aesthetic forms emerge through the context of diaspora.
Reviews / Votes
"Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of 'diaspora' to address the cross-border movements of people in past and present . . . [and] in mapping diaspora as a process, invites future discussions and interrogations on the subject."-Rhacel Parrenas, Brown UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
5 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-00210-5 (9780253002105)
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Persons
Sukanya Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire.
Aims McGuinness is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1856.
Steven C. McKay is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz and author of Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines.
Aims McGuinness is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1856.
Steven C. McKay is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz and author of Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Routing Diasporas / Sukanya Banerjee
Part 1. Interrogating Terms
1. The Middle Passages of Black Migration / Jenny Sharpe
2. Making the Exodus from Algeria "European": Family and Race in 1962 France / Todd Shepard
3. Enslaved Lives, Enslaving Labels: A New Approach to the Colonial Indian Labor Diaspora / Crispin Bates and Marina Carter
Part 2. Maps of Intimacy
4. Empire, Anglo-India, and the Alimentary Canal / Parama Roy
5. Domestic Internationalisms, Imperial Nationalisms: Civil Rights, Immigration, and Conjugal Military Policy / Rachel Ida Buff
Part 3. Nation, Narrative, Diaspora
6. Serial Migration: Stories of Home and Belonging in Diaspora / Lok Siu
7. Building Associations: Nineteenth-Century Monumental Architecture and the Jew in the American Imagination / Martin A. Berger
8. Cultural Forms and World Systems: The Ethnic Epic in the New Diaspora / Betty Joseph
Afterword: Diaspora and the Language of Neoliberalism / Aims McGuinness and Steven C. McKay
List of Contributors
Index
Introduction: Routing Diasporas / Sukanya Banerjee
Part 1. Interrogating Terms
1. The Middle Passages of Black Migration / Jenny Sharpe
2. Making the Exodus from Algeria "European": Family and Race in 1962 France / Todd Shepard
3. Enslaved Lives, Enslaving Labels: A New Approach to the Colonial Indian Labor Diaspora / Crispin Bates and Marina Carter
Part 2. Maps of Intimacy
4. Empire, Anglo-India, and the Alimentary Canal / Parama Roy
5. Domestic Internationalisms, Imperial Nationalisms: Civil Rights, Immigration, and Conjugal Military Policy / Rachel Ida Buff
Part 3. Nation, Narrative, Diaspora
6. Serial Migration: Stories of Home and Belonging in Diaspora / Lok Siu
7. Building Associations: Nineteenth-Century Monumental Architecture and the Jew in the American Imagination / Martin A. Berger
8. Cultural Forms and World Systems: The Ethnic Epic in the New Diaspora / Betty Joseph
Afterword: Diaspora and the Language of Neoliberalism / Aims McGuinness and Steven C. McKay
List of Contributors
Index