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Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and
transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations
of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th-21st-century travel
writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book
analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and
national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration
in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the
travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between
cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range
of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various
historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong
central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel
contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have
acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the
early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to
discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the
volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves
travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The
analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization
and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation.
What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern
with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural
identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and
binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays
particular attention to the performance of identity in various
spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the
East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation
of intercultural and ethnic encounters.
Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and
transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations
of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th-21st-century travel
writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book
analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and
national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration
in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the
travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between
cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range
of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various
historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong
central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel
contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have
acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the
early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to
discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the
volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves
travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The
analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization
and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation.
What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern
with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural
identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and
binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays
particular attention to the performance of identity in various
spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the
East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation
of intercultural and ethnic encounters.
Winner: Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in
Modern Greek Studies Promotes the understanding of Italian
Americans and Greek Americans through the study of their
interactions and juxtapositions. Redirecting Ethnic Singularity:
Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation contributes
to U.S. ethnic and immigration studies by bringing into
conversation scholars working in the fields of Italian American and
Greek American studies in the United States, Europe, and Australia.
The work moves beyond the "single group" approach-an approach that
privileges the study of ethnic singularity--to explore instead two
ethnic groups in relation to each other in the broader context of
the United States. The chapters bring into focus transcultural
interfaces and inquire comparatively about similarities and
differences in cultural representations associated with these two
groups. This co-edited volume contributes to the fields of
transcultural and comparative studies. The book is
multi-disciplinary. It features scholarship from the perspectives
of architecture, ethnomusicology, education, history, cultural and
literary studies, and film studies, as well as whiteness studies.
It examines the production of ethnicity in the context of American
political culture as well as that of popular culture, including
visual representations (documentary, film, TV series) and "low
brow" crime fiction. It includes analysis of literature. It
involves comparative work on religious architecture, transoceanic
circulation of racialized categories, translocal interconnections
in the formation of pan-Mediterranean identities, and the making of
the immigrant past in documentaries from Italian and Greek
filmmakers. This volume is the first of its kind in initiating a
multidisciplinary transcultural and comparative study across
European Americans.
This volume examines the role and representation of 'race' and
ethnicity in the media with particular emphasis on the United
States. It highlights contemporary work that focuses on changing
meanings of racial and ethnic identity as they are represented in
the media; television and film, digital and print media are under
examination. Through fourteen innovative and interdisciplinary case
studies written by a team of internationally based contributors,
the volume identifies ways in which ethnic, racial, and national
identities have been produced, reproduced, stereotyped, and
contested. It showcases new emerging theoretical approaches in the
field, and pays particular attention to the role of race,
ethnicity, and national identity, along with communal and
transnational allegiances, in the making of identities in the
media. The topics of the chapters range from immigrant newspapers
and gangster cinema to ethnic stand-up comedy and the use of 'race'
in advertising.
Winner: Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in
Modern Greek Studies Promotes the understanding of Italian
Americans and Greek Americans through the study of their
interactions and juxtapositions. Redirecting Ethnic Singularity:
Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation contributes
to U.S. ethnic and immigration studies by bringing into
conversation scholars working in the fields of Italian American and
Greek American studies in the United States, Europe, and Australia.
The work moves beyond the "single group" approach-an approach that
privileges the study of ethnic singularity--to explore instead two
ethnic groups in relation to each other in the broader context of
the United States. The chapters bring into focus transcultural
interfaces and inquire comparatively about similarities and
differences in cultural representations associated with these two
groups. This co-edited volume contributes to the fields of
transcultural and comparative studies. The book is
multi-disciplinary. It features scholarship from the perspectives
of architecture, ethnomusicology, education, history, cultural and
literary studies, and film studies, as well as whiteness studies.
It examines the production of ethnicity in the context of American
political culture as well as that of popular culture, including
visual representations (documentary, film, TV series) and "low
brow" crime fiction. It includes analysis of literature. It
involves comparative work on religious architecture, transoceanic
circulation of racialized categories, translocal interconnections
in the formation of pan-Mediterranean identities, and the making of
the immigrant past in documentaries from Italian and Greek
filmmakers. This volume is the first of its kind in initiating a
multidisciplinary transcultural and comparative study across
European Americans.
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