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This volume seeks to weave applications of the dynamic concept of
resonance to ethnic studies. Resonance refers to the ever
broadening, multidirectional effects of movement or action, a
concept significant for many disciplines. The individual chapters
exchange the concept of static "intertextuality" for that of
interactive "resonance," which encourages consideration of the
mutual and processual influences among readings, paradigms, and
social engagement in cultural analysis. International scholars of
literary and cultural studies, linguistics, history, politics, or
ethno-environmental studies contribute their work in this volume.
Each chapter examines a specific ethnic phenomenon in terms of
relevant literature, lived experience and theoretical approaches,
or historical intervention, relating the given case study to
parameters of resonance. The book offers dialogic transnational
interchange, a play of eclectic ethnic voices, inquiries,
perspectives, and differences. The studies in this
interdisciplinary volume show that - through resonant engagement
with(in) and between works - literary production can both enhance
and disturb cultural narratives of ethnicity.
Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as
the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States
and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and
deportations indicates. The essays by the international and
interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer
critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical
precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in
narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are
variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions
in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or
exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the
figure of the "exile" as it moves across times, borders, and
genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the
refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures
of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that
link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the
volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and
transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora,
migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and
policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent
confrontations.
This volume seeks to weave applications of the dynamic concept of
resonance to ethnic studies. Resonance refers to the ever
broadening, multidirectional effects of movement or action, a
concept significant for many disciplines. The individual chapters
exchange the concept of static "intertextuality" for that of
interactive "resonance," which encourages consideration of the
mutual and processual influences among readings, paradigms, and
social engagement in cultural analysis. International scholars of
literary and cultural studies, linguistics, history, politics, or
ethno-environmental studies contribute their work in this volume.
Each chapter examines a specific ethnic phenomenon in terms of
relevant literature, lived experience and theoretical approaches,
or historical intervention, relating the given case study to
parameters of resonance. The book offers dialogic transnational
interchange, a play of eclectic ethnic voices, inquiries,
perspectives, and differences. The studies in this
interdisciplinary volume show that - through resonant engagement
with(in) and between works - literary production can both enhance
and disturb cultural narratives of ethnicity.
Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as
the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States
and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and
deportations indicates. The essays by the international and
interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer
critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical
precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in
narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are
variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions
in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or
exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the
figure of the "exile" as it moves across times, borders, and
genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the
refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures
of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that
link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the
volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and
transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora,
migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and
policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent
confrontations.
Discrimination, stigmatization, xenophobia, heightened
securitization - fear and blaming of "aliens within" - characterize
the world infected by COVID-19. Such fears have a long cultural
history, however, particularly in connecting pathology with race,
poverty, and migration. This volume explores theory and narratives
of disease, danger, and displacement through the lenses of
cultural, literary, and film studies, historical representation,
ethnics studies, sociology and cultural geography, classics, music,
and linguistics. Investigations range from, for example, illness
discourse in the ancient classics to images of perilous intruders
in the Age of Trump, from the Haitian Revolution and subsequent
zombie stereotypes to current, problematic refugee resettlement in
the US South and Greek islands, from the urban underworld in
nineteenth-century sensation novels to ethnic women "on the stroll"
in coronavirus times. The collection is organized into three
thematically intertwined parts: Stigmatizing the Racialized
Underclass; Pathologizing the Other; Constructing and Countering
Collapse. It examines changing or recurrent aporias in tropes of
belonging and exclusion, as well as the birthing of new forms of
identity, agency, and countercultural expression.
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