In this fascinating book, Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes critically
examines the impact of colonialism and postcolonial migration on
the politics and identity of Euro-American imperial powers.
It considers how 'outsiders' are part of the construction of the
'native' identity of the nation-state, and also how they challenge
its essential coherence when they 'return' to the centre in our
increasingly globalized world. Engaging in a
theoretically-motivated discussion of a range of sources (film,
fiction, political theory and state policy); the volume traces the
nomadic movement of bodies across national frontiers, helping us to
question any natural link between nation-states and identities, and
between places and peoples. This is not merely a theoretical
problem, as Fernandes relates it to the very current crisis of
nativistic / multicultural identity in the West. He examines how
politics takes shape in transnational social and cultural
encounters, and how this new politics is not just about containing
aliens, but also contains fruitful possibilities for different
modes of being.
Challenging Euro-America's Politics of Identity will be of
interest to advanced students and scholars in politics, geography,
postcolonial studies, cultural studies, African and
African-American studies, comparative literature, American studies,
and Ethnic studies.
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