New Routes for Diaspora Studies

Sukanya Banerjee (Edited by), Aims McGuinness (Edited by), Steven C. McKay (Edited by), John Blum (Other), Todd Shepard (Contributions by), Crispin Bates (Contributions by), Marina Carter (Contributions by), Parama Roy (Contributions by), Rachel Ida Buff (Contributions by), Lok Siu (Contributions by), Betty Joseph (Contributions by)

9780253002105

Paperback / softback, published 11 July 2012

252 pages, 5 b&w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.408 kg

"Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of 'diaspora' to address the cross-border movements of people in past and present . . . [and] in mapping diaspora as a process, invites future discussions and interrogations on the subject."—Rhacel Parreñas, Brown University

Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the U.S., the contributors interrogate ideas of displacement, return, and place of origin as they relate to diasporic identity. They also consider how practices of commensality become grounds for examining identity and difference and how narrative and aesthetic forms emerge through the context of diaspora.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Routing Diasporas / Sukanya Banerjee
Part 1. Interrogating Terms
1. The Middle Passages of Black Migration / Jenny Sharpe
2. Making the Exodus from Algeria "European": Family and Race in 1962 France / Todd Shepard
3. Enslaved Lives, Enslaving Labels: A New Approach to the Colonial Indian Labor Diaspora / Crispin Bates and Marina Carter
Part 2. Maps of Intimacy
4. Empire, Anglo-India, and the Alimentary Canal / Parama Roy
5. Domestic Internationalisms, Imperial Nationalisms: Civil Rights, Immigration, and Conjugal Military Policy / Rachel Ida Buff
Part 3. Nation, Narrative, Diaspora
6. Serial Migration: Stories of Home and Belonging in Diaspora / Lok Siu
7. Building Associations: Nineteenth-Century Monumental Architecture and the Jew in the American Imagination / Martin A. Berger
8. Cultural Forms and World Systems: The Ethnic Epic in the New Diaspora / Betty Joseph
Afterword: Diaspora and the Language of Neoliberalism / Aims McGuinness and Steven C. McKay
List of Contributors
Index