Race and displacement : nation, migration, and identity in the twenty-first century / edited by Maha Marouan and Merinda Simmons ; foreword by Houston A. Baker Jr. ; introduction by Philip D. Beidler ; afterword by Trudier Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marouan, Maha, 1975-

Simmons, Merinda, 1981-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture conflict in literature.

Displacement (Psychology) in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Refugees in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions. The multifaceted approach of the essays in Race and Displacement allows for nuanced discussions of race and displacement in expansive ways, exploring those issues in transnational and global terms. The contributors not only raise questions about race and displacement as signifying tropes and lived experiences; they also offer compelling

Contents:

Contents; Foreword - Houston A. Baker Jr.; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Philip D. Beidler; Reflections on 'Race and Displacement' - Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine; I. Race and Bodies; Lady Eve's Garden Sings the Blues: Spirituality and Identity in Gloria Naylor's 'Bailey's Café' - Regina N. Bradley; Blackqueer Aesthesis: Sexuality and the Rumor and Gossip of Black Gospel - Ashon T. Crawley; The Practice of Embodiment: Transatlantic Crossings and Black Female Sexuality in Nella Larsen's 'Quicksand' - Deborah Katz

Returning from "Beyond the Bridge" : Postcolonial Hybridity in Gloria Naylor's 'Mama Day' - Matthew DischingerII. Race and Place; Immigrant Desire: Contesting Canadian Safety and Whiteness in Dionne Brand's 'In Another Place, Not Here' - Lauren Vedal; Beyond Race and Nation: The African American Barbary Captivity Narrative of Robert Adams - Melanie Fritsch; Upon the Public Highways: Travel and Race in Charles W. Chesnutt's 'The Marrow of Tradition' - Walter Bosse; III. Race and Nation; Washing the Ethiop Red: Sir Francis Drake and the Cimarrons of Panama - Cassander L. Smith

Nations, Migration, and Métis Subsistence, 1860-1940 - Delia HagenDisorientation in Julie Otsuka's 'When the Emperor Was Divine' : The Imprisoned Spaces of Japanese Americans during World War II - Abigail G. H. Manzella; IV. Race and Imagination; Moreau avec Cuvier, Kant avec Sade: Saint Domingue, Sara Baartman, and the Technologies of Imperial Desire - Jonathan Glover; An Oracular Swan Song? : American Literary Modernism, Modernity, and the Trope of Lynching in Jean Toomer's 'Cane' - Yumi Pak

Cultural Schizophrenia and Postcolonial Identity in Derek Walcott's 'Dream on Monkey Mountain' and Bernadine Evaristo's 'Lara' - Kathrin KottemannAfterword: The Complexities of Home - Trudier Harris; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 4, 2013).

ISBN:

0-8173-8679-3

OCLC:

862134804