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Rethinking diasporas : hidden narratives and imagined borders / edited by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh, Kevin Howard and David Getty.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Culture diffusion.
- Acculturation.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (124 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Central to the aim of both this book is to rethink the concept of diaspora as it is used both academically and popularly at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It seeks to interrogate the notion of "diaspora" in an interdisciplinary way, and to explore the contradictions inherent in contemporary notions of place and identity. It presents explorations of both "traditional" diasporas, such as the Irish community in the United States and in Great Britain, as well as recently established d...
- Contents:
- Frank McCourt : from colonized imagination to diaspora / Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
- Imagined narratives : photography and the construction of diasporic cultural memory / Gail Baylis
- Representing displacement and diaspora : the Italian exodus from Istria and Dalmatia / Chiara Tedaldi
- Digesting diasporas : Vietnamese migrants and German multiculturalism / Claire Sutherland
- Diaspora of state-sponsored interculturalism? : the Zena Project and Bosnian migrant women in Ireland / Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic
- Remembering and forgetting diaspora : immigrant voices and Irish historical memories of migration / Jason King
- Ireland's hidden diaspora? : finding a place for the Ulster-Scots in Ireland's national tale / Carol Baraniuk and Linda Hagan
- Accidental diasporas : a perspective on Northern Ireland's nationalists / Kevin Howard.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-04305-6
- 9786612043055
- 1-4438-0249-2
- OCLC:
- 827209520
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