Narratives of citizenship : indigenous and diasporic peoples unsettle the nation-state / edited by Aloys N. M. Fleischmann, Nancy Van Styvendale, and Cody McCarroll.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fleischmann, Aloys N. M., 1972-

Van Styvendale, Nancy, 1976-

McCarroll, Cody, 1980-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism.

Nationalism.

Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation.

Indigenous peoples.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.

Immigrants.

Culture in literature.

Mass media and culture.

Physical Description:

xlv, 358 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2011.

Summary:

Scholars of English literature generally and of Canadian literature in particular explore attitudes about citizenship by people who are close to the border of it, on one side or the other. The cover the iconography of the anti-citizen, the melancholic Canadian, envisioning indigenous citizenship, and race and the diasporic re/turn. Among the topics are enfolding citizenship and Mussolini's demographic politics, the home country as dead lover in Myrna Kostash's The Doomed Bridegroom, narration through photography in Hawai'i, and Black Canadians and the question of diasporic citizenship. Distributed in the US by Michigan State University Press. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Citizens of the exception : Obasan meets Salt Fish Girl / Robert Zacharias

Grazia Deledda's The church of soliture : enfolding citizenship and Mussolini's demographic politics / Dorothy Woodman

"Some of course married them, which was better" : citizenship and a traffic of mixed-race women and children in Tsimshian-Area missionary narratives / Aloys N.M. Fleischmann

Failed states and the militarization of youth in Sub-Saharan Africa : insecurity and the crisis of citizenship in Nollywood movies / Paul Ugor

Affecting citizenship : the materiality of melanchola / Lily Cho

"I am enchanted" : the home country as Dead Lover in Myrna Kostash's The doomed bridegroom / Lindy Ledohowski

A citizen of story : Wayne Johnston's Baltimore's Mansion and the "Newfoundland Diaspora" / Jennifer Bowering Delisle

Imposing subcitizenship : Canadian white civility and the Two Row Wampum of the Six Nations / Daniel Coleman

Camera ready : narration through photography in Hawai'i / Sydney L. Iaukea

Imaginary citizens : the White Paper and the Whitewash in the press / Carmen Robertson

"Cracked tongue. Broken tongue" : the incomplete, resistant translation of language and culture in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Laura Schechter

Whose diaspora is this anyway? : Peruvians, Japanese perhaps, and the Dekasegi / Marco Katz

Black Canadas and the question of diasporic citizenship / David Chariandy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780888645180

088864518X

OCLC:

690088769