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Diasporic writing simultaneously asserts a sense of belonging and
expresses a sense of being 'ethnic' in a society of immigration.
The essays in this volume explore how contemporary diasporic
writers in English use their works to mediate this dissonance and
seek to work through the ethical, political, and personal
affiliations of diasporic identities and subjectivities. The essays
call for a remapping of post-colonial literatures and a
reevaluation of the Anglophone literary canon by including
post-colonial diasporic literary discourses. Demonstrating that an
intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must
in our post-colonial world, this volume is a valuable contribution
to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and
identities.
Sites of Ethnicity brings together contributions from scholars in
Canada, the U.K., Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the
United States who share an interest in exploring the theoretical
possibilities of site analysis and the crucial role of place and
spatial tactics in multi-ethnic societies. The strategic means for
deciphering total social facts-comprising broad issues such as
travel, subject positioning, identity, ethnicity, culture,
memory-are as diverse and wide-ranging as the contributors to this
volume. Manifestations of ethnicity in literature and non-literary
texts, music, food, TV series, photographs, and even gravesites,
are revealed to be constructed, performed, eaten, remembered,
desired, and imagined as important sites for a definition of both
individual and collective identities that, when studied in-depth,
prove consistently elusive, fluid, and always already deferred. The
papers present a vision of a world that is increasingly a global
village, one in which memory and local place help measure various
forms of ethnic representation through a reflection of possible
sites of cultural engagement and agency.
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