Theorizing Diaspora

Bringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space.

Anthologizes the most influential and critically received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies. Offers classi...

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Bringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space.

Anthologizes the most influential and critically received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies. Offers classic statements that have defined the field by scholars including Appadurai, Gilroy, Radhakrishnan, and Hall. Presents divergent strains of multiple diasporas, including Chinese, Black African, Jewish, South Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean. Reflects the modalities and methodologies of scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Includes a postscript on diaspora in cyberspace and an extensive bibliography.

Part. I. Modernity, Globalism, and Diaspora
-- 1. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy / Arjun Appadurai
-- 2. The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity / Paul Gilroy
Part. II. Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora
-- 3. Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Diaspora / Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin
-- 4. Ethnicity in an Age of Diaspora / R. Radhakrishnan
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Part. I. Modernity, Globalism, and Diaspora
-- 1. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy / Arjun Appadurai
-- 2. The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity / Paul Gilroy
Part. II. Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora
-- 3. Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Diaspora / Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin
-- 4. Ethnicity in an Age of Diaspora / R. Radhakrishnan
-- 5. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian-American Differences / Lisa Lowe
Part. III. Sexuality, Gender, and Diaspora
-- 6. Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony / Rey Chow
-- 7. Returning(s): Relocating the Critical Feminist Auto-Ethnographer / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
-- 8. In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics and the Diasporic Dilemma / Martin F. Manalansan IV
Part. IV. Cultural Production and Diaspora
-- 9. Cultural Identity and Diaspora / Stuart Hall
-- 10. Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination: The Aesthetics of Black Independent Film in Britain / Kobena Mercer
-- 11. Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion / Gayatri Gopinath
Postscript: Cyberscapes and the Interfacing of Diasporas / Anita Mannur
Select Bibliography of Works on Diaspora.
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