Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures

Herausgeber: Maver, Igor

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Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrating that an intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must in our post-colonial world, the essays in this volume are a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780739129708
• ISBN-10: 0739129708
• Artikelnr.: 26369977

Autorenporträt

Igor Maver is professor of English in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Positioning Diasporic Literary Cultures Chapter 2
"Not Belonging, but Longing": Shifts of Emphasis in Contemporary Diasporic
Writing in Canada Chapter 3 Canadian New Diasporic Writing and
Transnational/Borderland Literary Identities Chapter 4 The Diaspora Writes
Back: Cultural Memory and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost Chapter 5
Translational Identities and the Emigré Experience Chapter 6 Between the
Island and the City: Cultural Brokerage in Caribbean Canadian Short Fiction
Chapter 7 The Child of New Norcia: Alf Taylor's Poetry Chapter 8 The
Englishness of Maori Writing Chapter 9 The Afrosporic Migration of Genital
Alterations to the New Europe: Trauma, the Law, and the Internet Chapter 10
Diaspora in the Family: Father and Mother Figures in Canadian Theatre
Chapter 11 NirpalSingh Dhalival's Tourism: How to Exploid Diaspora and Live
Happily Ever After