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Author:   Angela Naimou (Clemson University, South Carolina)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.728kg
ISBN:  

9781108840934

ISBN 10:   1108840930
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   10 August 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Diaspora and Literary Studies Angela Naimou; PART I. ORIGINS REVISITED: 1. Displaced in Diaspora? Jewish Communities in the Greco-Roman World Erich S. Gruen; 2. Interoceanic Relational Diasporas: A Caribbean Perspective Supriya Nair; 3. The Language of Lakay: Diaspora as Project and Process in Haitian Cultural Production Régine Jean-Charles; 4. The Insufficiency of Paradigms: Diaspora in South Asian Literature Sangeeta Ray; 5. Lynchpins of Sovereignty: Forced Removal and the Deportspora Imaginary Mary Pat Brady; 6. Afro-Futurist Speculations and Diaspora Yogita Goyal; PART II. MAJOR CONCEPTS IN RELATION: 7. The Shock of Relation: Queer Diasporas in Law and Literature Mrinalini Chakravorty; 8. Strangers and Brothers: James Baldwin's Encounters with Africa Laila Amine; 9. Incommensurability, Inextricability, Entanglement: Stuart Hall and the Question of Palestine Keith P. Feldman; 10. Radical Black Poetics and South-South Movement Walt Hunter; 11. Remembering the Uses of Diaspora, or Palestine is Still the Issue Anthony Alessandrini; 12. Refugee Ecologies: Narratives of Water in Vietnamese Diaspora Marguerite Nguyen; 13. Diaspora and Detention: Behrouz Boochani, Manus Prison and Genres of the Borderscape Jini Kim Watson; Part III. READINGS in Genre, Gender,and GENEALOGIES: 14. Transpacific Noir Jinah Kim; 15. From Nothing to Something: Black Speculative Fiction and the Trayvon Generation Justin L. Mann; 16. Biological and Narrative Reproduction in the Family-saga Novels of Maryse Condé Rachel L. Mordecai; 17. The Embodied Feminist Futures of Diaspora Samantha Pinto; 18. Of Origin and Opportunity: Co-narratives of Refugitude in Roxane Gay's Ayiti Lauren K. Alleyne; 19. Arabic Diasporic Literary Trajectories: Reinvented Magical Realisms, Biopolitical Ruptures, and Planetarity Rita Sakr; 20. Decolonizing Across Borders: Diasporic-Indigenous Encounters and the Predicaments of Arrival Nadine Attewell.

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'… an important intervention in diaspora and literary studies as well as cultural studies … Recommended.' A. I. Estrada, CHOICE

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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.

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