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Diaspora and Literary Studies
Diaspora is an ancient term that gained broad new significance in the twentieth century. At its simplest, diaspora refers to the geographic dispersion of a people from a common originary space to other sites. It pulls together ideas of people, movement, memory, and home, but also troubles them. In this volume, established and newer scholars provide fresh explorations of diaspora for twenty-first century literary studies. The volume re-examines major diaspora origin stories, theorizes diaspora through its conceptual intimacies and entanglements, and analyzes literary and visual-cultural texts to reimagine the genres, genders, and genealogies of diaspora. Literary mappings move across Africa, the Americas, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Pacific Islands, and through Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, Gulf, and Indian waters. Chapters reflect on diaspora as a key concept for migration, postcolonial, global comparative race, environmental, gender, and queer studies. The volume is thus an accessible and provocative account of diaspora as a vital resource for literary studies in a bordered world.
Book Details
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: Aug 10th, 2023
- Pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 1.06in - 1.67lb
- EAN: 9781108840934
- Categories: • Semiotics & Theory
About the Author
Naimou, Angela: - Angela Naimou is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University and author of Salvage Work: US and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood (2015), which won the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present book prize and received honorable mention for the MLA's William Sanders Scarborough Award.
Praise for this book
'... an important intervention in diaspora and literary studies as well as cultural studies ... Recommended.' A. I. Estrada, CHOICE