Global Identities in Transit
The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 2022
332 pages
978-1-9787-9188-6 (ISBN)
Description
Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores the myriad aspects of identity formation and identity representation in an increasingly globalized world. Covering a variety of cultural and historical experiences in addition to several texts of world literatures, the contributors discuss the configurations of transnationality and transculturality in our postcolonial and globalized world. Acknowledging that nationality, ethnicity, gender, and class are continually shaped by historical processes, the contributors hone in on the ways that the increase in mobility via migration, diaspora, and exile render identities always in transit In the face of structural inequalities and social injustices predominant in this context, the chapters reflect on the moral obligations of representation. This collection will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature.
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The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures
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Bouchra Benlemlih is professor of English and postcolonial studies at Ibn Zohr University.
Lahoussine Hamdoune is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at Ibn Zohr University.
Lahoussine Hamdoune is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Culture at Ibn Zohr University.
Content
Foreword
Eugene Chen Eoyang
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bouchra Benlemlih and Lahoussine Hamdoune
Part I: Identities in Transit: Self, Nation beyond 'Imperial Globality'
Chapter One: Be-coming a Rhizome: The Contingencies of the Self in the Posthuman Age
Paul Jahshan
Chapter Two: Belonging and (Un) belonging in The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei, Memories of Peking: South Side Stories and The Lost Garden
Yu Min Claire Chen
Chapter Three: Resisting Hegemonic Discourses in Abdelhak Serhane's Novels: Empire, Nation, and Gender
Azize Kour
Chapter Four: Identity Crisis, Retaliation and Deliberations of Women in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers
Shibani Banerjee
Part II: Across Borders and Thresholds: Identities in Diaspora Narratives
Chapter Five: The National and the Transnational: Negotiating Identity in Leila Aboulela's Minaret
Bouchra Benlemlih
Chapter Six: Clandestine Bodies in Transit: Refugees' Pipe Dreams in Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Exit West
Eugene Chen Eoyang
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bouchra Benlemlih and Lahoussine Hamdoune
Part I: Identities in Transit: Self, Nation beyond 'Imperial Globality'
Chapter One: Be-coming a Rhizome: The Contingencies of the Self in the Posthuman Age
Paul Jahshan
Chapter Two: Belonging and (Un) belonging in The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei, Memories of Peking: South Side Stories and The Lost Garden
Yu Min Claire Chen
Chapter Three: Resisting Hegemonic Discourses in Abdelhak Serhane's Novels: Empire, Nation, and Gender
Azize Kour
Chapter Four: Identity Crisis, Retaliation and Deliberations of Women in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers
Shibani Banerjee
Part II: Across Borders and Thresholds: Identities in Diaspora Narratives
Chapter Five: The National and the Transnational: Negotiating Identity in Leila Aboulela's Minaret
Bouchra Benlemlih
Chapter Six: Clandestine Bodies in Transit: Refugees' Pipe Dreams in Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Exit West
