Migrancy, culture, identity / Iain Chambers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Iain.

Series:

Comedia.

Comedia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Cultural relations.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

x, 154 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migrancy, Culture and Identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the West's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identity.

Contents:

chapter 1 AN IMPOSSIBLE HOMECOMING

chapter 2 MIGRANT LANDSCAPES

chapter 3 THE AURAL WALK

chapter 4 DESIRING MACHINES

chapter 5 THE BROKEN WORLD: WHOSE CENTRE, WHOSE PERIPHERY?

chapter 6 CITIES WITHOUT MAPS

chapter 7 THE WOUND AND THE SHADOW.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-150) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-88154-1

1-134-88155-X

1-281-14231-X

9786611142315

0-203-18209-X

9780203182093

OCLC:

475882302