Borders, exiles, diasporas / edited by Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barkan, Elazar.

Shelton, Marie-Denise, 1944-

Series:

Cultural sitings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Identity (Psychology).

Ethnic relations.

Ethnicity in literature.

Ethnic relations in literature.

ethnicity.

Physical Description:

xiv, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.

Contents:

Dilemma of the "but" : writing Germanness after the Holocaust / Angelika Bammer

Re-dressing the "German-Jewish" : a Jewish hermaphrodite and cross-dresser in Wilhelmine Germany / David Brenner

Accenting L.A. : Central Europeans in diasporan Hollywood in the 1940s / Catherine Portuges

Scraps of culture : African style in the African American community of Los Angeles / Leslie W. Rabine

Coming of age in Zambesia / Jane Hotchkiss

Pleasure's exile : Reinaldo Arena's last writing / Ricardo L. Ortíz

Defiance and reconciliation in Paul Celan's Die niemandsrose / Erin G. Carlston

Mimesis, mimicry, and critical theory in exile : Walter Benjamin's approach to the Collège de sociologie / Tyrus Miller

"Sharing the unshareable" : Jabès, deconstruction, and the thought of the "Jews" / Joan Brandt

On the exile of words in the American simulacrum : a free exercise in Wittgensteinian cultural critique / Daniel Herwitz

Antonin Artaud's itinerary through exile and insanity / Renèe Riese Hubert

Immigration, poster art, and transgressive citizenship : France, 1968-1988 / Françoise Lionnet

Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven : diasporic displacement and the feminization of the landscape / Wendy W. Walters

Monstrosity and representation in the postcolonial diaspora : The Satanic verses, Ulysses, and Frankenstein / Ronald Bush

Cultural Métissage and the play of identity in Leïla Sebbar's Shérazade trilogy / Anne Donadey

Fatal nationality : Sulaymān Fayyāḍ's novel Voices / Emily A. Haddad

Borders, exiles, minor literatures : the case of Palestinian-Israeli writing / Rena N. Potok

Poetics and politics of space in J.M.G. Le Clézio's Etoile errante / Walter Putnam.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804729050

9780804729055

0804729069

9780804729062

OCLC:

36800589

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