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Nomadic identities : the performance of citizenship / May Joseph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joseph, May.
- Series:
- Public worlds ; v. 5.
- Public worlds ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship.
- Ethnic groups--Political activity.
- Ethnic groups.
- Immigrants--Political activity.
- Immigrants.
- Minorities--Political activity.
- Minorities.
- Political participation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 177 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a modern world of vast migrations and relocations, the rights-and rites-of citizenship are increasingly perplexing, and ever more important. Kung Fu cinema, soul music, plays, and speeches are some of the media May Joseph considers as expressive negotiations for legal and cultural citizenship.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Performance of Citizenship; 2 Citizen Nyerere; 3 Ujamaa and Soul; 4 Kung Fu Cinema and Frugality; 5 Nomadic Citizenship; 6 Staging the Postcolony; 7 Bodies outside the State; 8 The Scream of Sycorax; 9 Transnational Migrations; 10 Postnational Reverberations; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8662-9
- OCLC:
- 236343256
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