Diaspora, Memory, and Identity

A Search for Home
Herausgeber: Agnew, Vijay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Diaspora, Memory, and Identity is an exciting and innovative collection of essays that examines the nuanced development of theories of Diaspora, subjectivity, double-consciousness, gender and class experiences, and the nature of home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780802093745
• ISBN-10: 0802093744
• Artikelnr.: 22028818

Autorenporträt

By Vijay Agnew

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
VIJAY AGNEW
Part 1: Diaspora and Memory
1. Language Matters
VIJAY AGNEW
2. Memories of Internment: Narrating Japanese-Canadian Women’s Life
Stories
PAMELA SUGIMAN
3. Wounding Events and the Limits of Autobiography
MARLENE KADAR
Part 2: History and Identity
1. Memoirs of a Sirdar’s Daughter in Canada: Hybridity and Writing Home
RISHMA DUNLOP
2. Ghosts and Shadows: Memory and Resilience among the Eritrean Diaspora
ATSUKO MATSUOKA and JOHN SORENSON
3. A Diasporic Bounty: Cultural History and Heritage
VIJAY AGNEW
Part 3: Community and Home
4. Diaspora and Cultural Memory
ANH HUA
5. Gendered Nostalgia: The Experiences of New Chinese Skilled Immigrants in
Canada
IZUMI SAKAMOTO and YANQIU RACHEL ZHOU
6.  ‘I Feel Like a Trini’: Narrative of a Generation-and-a-Half Canadian 230
CARL E. JAMES
7. The ‘Muslim’ Diaspora and Research on Gender: Promises and Perils
HAIDEH MOGHISSI
8. The Quest for the Soul in the Diaspora
VIJAY AGNEW
Afterword
SUSAN E. BABBITT
Contributors