New Directions in Diaspora Studies: Cultural and Literary Approaches
Sarah Ilott · Ana Cristina Mendes · Lucinda Newns
Jul 2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Ebook
201
Pages
reportRatings and reviews aren’t verified Learn More
About this ebook
This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The innovation of this volume lies in the interplay of both texts and theoretical insights from these different areas of cultural analysis, drawn together to probe diverse manifestations of diaspora while pointing out new directions of critique. Moving between representations of real and imaginary, violent and utopian, past, present and future diasporas, contributors demonstrate the ways in which authors, performers and artists are establishing new modes of representing and imagining diaspora in an increasingly globalised age. Contributions are organised into sections on performance, speculative fiction, city spaces, affective or violent diasporas, and silence and voice. Bringing together these wide-ranging histories, contexts and media allows for dialogue across vastly divergent experiences and representations of diaspora, and opens up a theoretical debate on the changing nature of this field of study.
About the author
Sarah Ilott is a Lecturer in English and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Ana Cristina Mendes is an Assistant Professor in English Studies at the University of Lisbon.
Lucinda Newns is a Lecturer in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Queen Mary University of London.
Ana Cristina Mendes is an Assistant Professor in English Studies at the University of Lisbon.
Lucinda Newns is a Lecturer in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Queen Mary University of London.
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
