Keown, Michelle
Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas
1. Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas
Michelle Keown, David Murphy, James Procter
Section 1. Discovering Europe
2. European Tribes: Transcultural Diasporic Encounters
John Mcleod
3. Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the ‘Diasporic’ Netherlands
Elleke Boehmer, Frances Gouda
4. Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Art: Gender, Genre and History
Siobhán Shilton
Section 2. Nostalgia and Longing for ‘Home’
5. ‘Naturally, I reject the term “diaspora”’: Said and Palestinian Dispossession
Patrick Williams
6. Latin Americans in London and the Dynamics of Diasporic Identities
Patria Román-Velázquez
7. Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland: The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia
Janet Wilson
Section 3. Comparative Diasporic Contexts
8. Exile, Incarceration and the Homeland: Jewish References in French Caribbean Novels
Celia Britton
9. Vijay Singh’s Indo-Fijian Work Ethic: The Politics of Diasporic Definitions
Mohit Prasad
10. French Atlantic Diasporas
Bill Marshall
11. Postcolonial Transplants: Cinema, Diaspora and the Body Politic
Elizabeth Ezra, Terry Rowden
Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Postcolonial/World Literature, Migration, Cultural Studies, European Literature
- Editor
- Keown, Michelle
- Murphy, David
- Procter, James
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 246 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230232785
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-36142-7