Migration, culture and transnational identities
Subtitle: critical essays
By: Edward O. Ako & Sarah Anyang agbor (eds.).
Publisher: L'Harmattan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9782343012759
Subjects: Emigration and immigration in literature; Fiction; History and criticism
Description: A common feature of all human histories is migration. The migration of individuals implies the migration of cultures. Cultural migration produces transitional and transnational identities. This transnationness itself is not a state, but rather a stage in a seemingly interminable process of "becoming".
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Caribbean to the metropolis : immigration and "the 'high anxiety' of belonging" in Caryl Phillips's In the falling snow / Jawhar Ahmed Dhouib; title: Thinking Caribbean transnational indentity a-new in contemporary short fiction / Maria Alonso Alonso; title: Shame and (self) punishment : trauma and diasporic identity in Fadia Faqir's My name is Salma / Ana-Beatriz Perez; title: Diaspora space : the dialectics of "longing" and "belonging" in George Lamming's The emigrants and V.S. Naipaul's Half a life / Sarah Anyang Agbor; title: Writing memories, contesting identitites : reading Mistry and Badami / Shaily Mudgal; title: Which other way? : migration and ways of seeing in V.S. Naipaul / Geraldine Sinyuy; title: Othering the self : the journey motif in V.S. Naipaul's The mimic men / Edwin Ntumfon Tangwa; title: Dialogic diaspora : Soul tourists by Bernardine Evaristo / Emilija Lipovsek; title: The concept of home and the competing identities for the visiting retournee in Nuruddin Farah's Links / Kesero Tunai; title: Now that the buffalo is gone : exile, isolation and representation in contemporary Native Canadian literature / Ellen Rosner Feig.