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Diaspora, Memory, and Identity

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Description for Diaspora, Memory, and Identity Paperback. Diaspora, Memory, and Identity is an exciting and innovative collection of essays that examines the nuanced development of theories of Diaspora, subjectivity, double-consciousness, gender and class experiences, and the nature of home. Editor(s): Agnew, Vijay. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.

Memories establish a connection between a collective and individual past, between origins, heritage, and history. Those who have left their places of birth to make homes elsewhere are familiar with the question, "Where do you come from?" and respond in innumerable well-rehearsed ways. Diasporas construct racialized, sexualized, gendered, and oppositional subjectivities and shape the cosmopolitan intellectual commitment of scholars. The diasporic individual often has a double consciousness, a privileged knowledge and perspective that is consonant with postmodernity and globalization.

The essays in this volume reflect on the movements of people and cultures in the present day, when physical, social, and mental ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802093745
SKU
V9780802093745
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About Vijay . Ed(S): Agnew
Vijay Agnew is a professor in the Division of Social Science at York University, and was the director of the Center for Feminist Research from 2001 to 2006.

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