Examines the ways in which literary texts act not just as a filter of experience of exile, but also as an aid to mediation in the associated problems of identity. This collection of essays traces the fundamental presuppositions of socio-cultural encounters arising from migration.
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The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants willingly arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals. Embedded in this movement from the f…
Aesthetic Citizenship is an ethnographic study of the role of theatrical performance in questions regarding immigration, citizenship, and the formation of national identity. Focusing on Paris in the twenty-first century, Emine Fişek analyzes the use of theater by immigrant-right…
Introduction -- On the Paris stage -- Prendre la parole -- The integrated actor -- Rethinking community and culture -- Theater without borders? -- Conclusion
Aesthetic Citizenship is an ethnographic study of the role of theatrical performance in questions regarding immigration, citizenship, and the formation of national identity. Focusing on Paris in the twenty-first century, Emine Fisek analyzes the use of theater by immigrant-right…
Immigration, citizenship, racialization : Asian American critique -- Canon, institutionalization, identity : Asian American studies -- Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity : Asian American differences -- Imagining Los Angeles in the production of multiculturalism -- Decoloniza…
In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces an…
"The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Francoise Kral takes issue with this view of the migrant experience, addressing …