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This volume explores ways in which the literary trope of the
palimpsest can be applied to ethnic and postcolonial literary and
cultural studies. Based on contemporary theories of the palimpsest,
the innovative chapters reveal hidden histories and uncover
relationships across disciplines and seemingly unconnected texts.
The contributors focus on diverse forms of the palimpsest: the
incarceration of Native Americans in military forts and their
response to the elimination of their cultures; mnemonic novels that
rework the politics and poetics of the Black Atlantic; the urban
palimpsests of Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Johannesburg, and Los
Angeles that reveal layers of humanity with disparities in origin,
class, religion, and chronology; and the palimpsestic
configurations of mythologies and religions that resist strict
cultural distinctions and argue against cultural relativism.
This volume explores ways in which the literary trope of the
palimpsest can be applied to ethnic and postcolonial literary and
cultural studies. Based on contemporary theories of the palimpsest,
the innovative chapters reveal hidden histories and uncover
relationships across disciplines and seemingly unconnected texts.
The contributors focus on diverse forms of the palimpsest: the
incarceration of Native Americans in military forts and their
response to the elimination of their cultures; mnemonic novels that
rework the politics and poetics of the Black Atlantic; the urban
palimpsests of Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Johannesburg, and Los
Angeles that reveal layers of humanity with disparities in origin,
class, religion, and chronology; and the palimpsestic
configurations of mythologies and religions that resist strict
cultural distinctions and argue against cultural relativism.
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.
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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