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Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature (Paperback)
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Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
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This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches
to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to
explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes
contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir,
and film. Through a wide variety of ethnic experiences ranging from
the Transatlantic, Asian American, Latino/a and Caribbean alongside
their corresponding forms of displacement - political exile, war
trauma, and economic migration - the essays in this collection
connect the intimate experience of the returning subject to
multiple locations, historical experiences, inter-subjective
relations, and cultural interactions. They challenge the idea of
the narrative of return as a journey back to the untouched roots
and home that the ethnic subject left behind. Their diacritical
approach combines, on the one hand, a sensitivity to the context
and structural elements of modern diaspora; and on the other, an
analysis of the individual psychological processes inherent to the
experience of displacement and return such as nostalgia, memory and
belonging. In the narratives of return analyzed in this volume,
space and identity are never static or easily definable; rather,
they are in-process and subject to change as they are always
entangled in the historical and inter-subjective relations ensuing
from displacement and mobility. This book will interest students
and scholars who wish to further explore the role of American
literature within current debates on globalization, migration, and
ethnicity.
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