Diaspora and multiculturalism: common traditions and new developments

by Fludernik, Monika

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Title Statements

Full title :Diaspora and multiculturalism : common traditions and new developments / Monika Fludernik, editor.

Summary

In postcolonial theory we have now reached a new stage in the succession of key concepts. After the celebrations of hybridity in the work of Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak, it is now the concept of diaspora that has sparked animated debates among postcolonial critics. This collection intervenes in the current discussion about the 'new' diaspora by placing the rise of diaspora within the politics of multiculturalism and its supercession by a politics of difference and cultural-rights theory. The essays present recent developments in Jewish negotiations of diasporic tradition and experience, discussing the reinterpretation of concepts of the 'old' diaspora in late twentieth- century British and American Jewish literature. The second part of the volume comprises theoretical and critical essays on the South Asian diaspora and on multicultural settings between Australia, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. The South Asian and Caribbean diasporas are compared to the Jewish prototype and contrasted with the Turkish diaspora in Germany. All essays deal with literary reflections on, and thematisations of, the diasporic predicament.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rodopi
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:lxvii, 391 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9042009063, 9789042009066, 9042009160, 9789042009165
oclc:ocm53289524
LC Classification:P96.M83
Dewey Decimal:809.88

The diasporic imaginary : postcolonial reconfigurations in the context of multiculturalism / Monika Fludernik -- Dispelling the spells of memory : another approach to reading our yesterdays / Uma Parameswaran -- Between goldene medine and promised land : legitimizing the American Jewish diaspora / Ursula Zeller -- Diasporas of the mind : British-Jewish writing beyond multiculturalism / Bryan Cheyette -- Kindertransport : memory, identity and the British-Jewish diaspora / Beate Neumeier -- Cultural-rights theory : a view from the US-Mexican border / Feroza Jussawalla -- "Simple survival" in "Happy multicultural land"? : diasporic identities and cultural hybridity in the contemporary British novel / Roy Sommer -- Nonlinear dynamics and the diasporic imagination / Minoli Salgado -- Postponed arrivals : the Afro-Asian dispora in M.G. Vassanji's No new land? / Vera Alexander -- Writing across boundaries : South Asian diasporas and homelands / Makarand Paranjape -- Imagined communities as imaginary homelands : the south Asian diaspora in fiction / Monika Fludernik -- Diaspora studies and the culture of the African diaspora : the poetry of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite nd Linton Kwesi …

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Caractéristiques nationales dans la lit… Communication interculturelle dans la l… Diaspora Englisch etnische groepen Intercultural communication in literatu… Literatur Mångkulturella samhällen i litteraturen Multiculturalism in literature Multiculturalisme dans la littérature Multiculturele samenlevingen Multikulturelle Gesellschaft National characteristics in literature Nationale Minderheit