Exile cultures, misplaced identities / edited by Paul Allatson and Jo McCormack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allatson, Paul.

Contributor:

McCormack, Jo, 1973-

Series:

Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 30.

Critical studies ; vol. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acculturation.

Exile (Punishment).

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The edited collection brings together researchers on exile in international perspective from three continents who explore questions of exilic identity along multiple geopolitical and cultural axes—Cuba, the USA and Australia; Colombia and the USA; Algeria and France; Italy, France and Mexico; non-Han minorities and Han majorities in China; China, Tibet and India; Japan and China; New Caledonia, Vietnam and France; Hungary, the USSR, and Australia; and Germany, before and after unification. The international and crosscultural span of this collection represents an important addition to the fields of exile criticism and cultural identity studies. Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities will be of interest to readers, scholars and students of exile, diasporic and transmigration studies, international studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, language studies, and comparative literary studies.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities

Acknowledgements / Editors Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities

Introduction / Paul Allatson and Jo McCormack

Becoming and Unbecoming Tu: Nation, Nationality and Exilic Agency in the People’s Republic of China / Susette Cooke

Exile as Nationality: The Salar of Northwest China / David S. G. Goodman

Language, Exile and the Burden of Undecidable Citizenship: Tenzin Tsundue and the Tibetan Experience / Obododimma Oha

Returning from Exile: The Japanese Citizens from the Former Manchuria / Rowena Ward

Memory and Exile: Contemporary France and the Algerian War (1954-1962) / Jo McCormack

The Language of Exile: Haunting Desires in Djebar’s La Disparition de la langue française / Ana de Medeiros

Exile: Rupture and Continuity in Jean Vanmai’s Chân Dang and Fils de Chân Dang / Tess Do

Exiled in the Homeland: Heiner Müller’s Medea / Yixu Lü

Acceptance: on 1956: Desire and the Unknowable / Sue Hajdú

Displacement and Shifting Geographies in the Noir Fiction of Cesare Battisti / Maja Mikula

“En híbrida mezcolanza”: Exile and Anxiety in Alirio Díaz Guerra’s Lucas Guevara / Jeff Browitt

Shame, Nostalgia and Cuban American Cultural Identity in Fiction: “la cubana arrepentida” / Olga Lorenzo

Dying in the New Country / Marivic Wyndham

Coda: Eleven Stars Over the Last Moments of Andalusia / Devleena Ghosh

About the Contributors / Editors Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities

Bibliography / Editors Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities

Index / Editors Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0592-2

1-4356-5493-5

OCLC:

244795266

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401205924 DOI