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Rites of return : diaspora poetics and the politics of memory / edited by Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gender and culture.
- Gender and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Return in literature.
- Feminist literary criticism.
- Collective memory and literature.
- Discourse analysis, Narrative.
- Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
- Summary:
- The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the widespread effects of a legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. This collection of original essays devoted to feminist diasporic studies maps bold and broad-based responses to past injury across Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States. It examines new technologies of genetic and genealogical research, memoirs about lost family histories, the popularity of root
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613789464
- 9781281736000
- 1281736007
- 9780231521796
- 0231521790
- OCLC:
- 775596471
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