Diasporic Sensibility
Author: V. Vinod Kumar
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9789382532910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: V. Vinod Kumar
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9789382532910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Melvin Ember
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2004-11-30
Total Pages: 1263
ISBN-13: 0306483211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Immigration is a topic that is as important among anthropologists as it is the general public. Almost every culture has experienced adaptation and assimilation when immigrating to a new country and culture; usually leaving for what is perceived as a "better life". Not only does this diaspora change the country of adoption, but also the country of origin. Many large nations in the world have absorbed, and continue to absorb, large numbers of immigrants. The foreseeable future will see a continuation of large-scale immigration, as many countries experience civil war and secessionist pressures. Currently, there is no reference work that describes the impact upon the immigrants and the immigrant societies relevant to the world's cultures and provides an overview of important topics in the world's diasporas. The encyclopedia consists of two volumes covering three main sections: Diaspora Overviews covers over 20 ethnic groups that have experienced voluntary or forced immigration. These essays discuss the history behind the social, economic, and political reasons for leaving the original countries, and the cultures in the new places; Topics discusses the impact and assimilation that the immigrant cultures experience in their adopted cultures, including the arts they bring, the struggles they face, and some of the cities that are in the forefront of receiving immigrant cultures; Diaspora Communities include over 60 portraits of specific diaspora communities. Each portrait follows a standard outline to facilitate comparisons. The Encyclopedia of Diasporas can be used both to gain a general understanding of immigration and immigrants, and to find out about particular cultures, topics and communities. It will prove of great value to researchers and students, curriculum developers, teachers, and government officials. It brings together the disciplines of anthropology, social studies, political studies, international studies, and immigrant and immigration studies.
Author: Pooja
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781639406265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book accounts for the colonial and postcolonial constituents in Amitav Ghosh's Novels. The issues related to thematic considerations of diasporic sensibility and issues of identity are the concerns under the purview of colonialism and postcolonialism fervour. Ghosh's works provide a thoughtful sensitive view of existing problems that makes him a significant contemporary writer. Amitav Ghosh's creative output is staggeringly wide, ranging from geography and history to colonial and postcolonial issues. The idea of the diaspora is discussed occupying various perspectives like historical, cultural and economic displacement. The notion of the diaspora is scrutinized keeping the characters of his novels in alignment with the above-mentioned contexts. Amitav Ghosh's writings endeavour creatively to negotiate through the complex web of historical, political, economic, and cultural diaspora related to past and contemporary times. Along with diasporic issues, inquisitive concern towards colonial and postcolonial repercussion on agitations of relegated, diasporic, national, cultural and subaltern identity have been dealt with. The embodiment of these issues, in the novels of Amitav Ghosh, is discussed that includes the various forms of the issues of identity.
Author: Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1452902240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dr. P. Prasanna Kumari
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0359035477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hena Ahmad
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780820452470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Postnational Feminisms: Postcolonial Identities and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai offers a significant contribution to the field of postcolonial and Third World feminist studies. It reevaluates the ways in which Third World women writers interrogate the relationship between woman and nation in the postcolonial context. Hena Ahmad brings forth the concept of "postnational feminism", which she deploys to show how these major writers challenge the role of women as signifiers of national cultures in their works. This innovative concept illuminates the ambivalence of these uniquely positioned writers as Ahmad explores the connection between postnationalism and Third World feminism." -- BOOK JACKET.
Author: C. Noland
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 113708751X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue two differing traditions of poetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and crucial differences) between avant-garde and diasporic formal strategies and social formations. The essays foreground the creation of experimental forms and investigate the specific contexts of cultural displacement and language use that inform their poetics.
Author: Michael Grimshaw
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1317491483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contemporary tourism and travel have become a form of religion, a new opiate of the masses. However, could Church and theology be religious forms of tourism and travel? 'Bibles and Baedekers' offers a theology of tourism and exile for a modern and postmodern world. It examines the ways in which location, identity and movement have made use of religious texts and metaphor and questions the relative absence of secular texts and ideas in theology. The theology of the tourist and traveller is one of new experiences, the acquisition of identity through movement. 'Bibles and Baedekers' uniquely applies this to the postmodern Christian, embodying the fulfilment of Bonhoeffer's 'religionless Christianity', dislocated from both a secular and 'religious' world.
Author: Michael A. Bucknor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-06-14
Total Pages: 883
ISBN-13: 1136821732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections that consider: the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a history of literary critical debate textual turning points, identifying key moments in both literary and critical history and bringing lesser known works into context fresh perspectives on enduring and contentious critical issues including the canon, nation, race, gender, popular culture and migration new directions for literary criticism and theory, such as eco-criticism, psychoanalysis and queer studies the material dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean literature and generic interfaces with film and visual art This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field. The volume's reach of subject and clarity of writing provide an excellent resource and springboard to further research for those working in literature and cultural studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies as well as Caribbean studies, history and geography.
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007-11-30
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780804767828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays examines the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations and links these seemingly disparate movements through the category of Asian diasporas.