Aftermaths : : Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered / / ed. by Peter Y. Paik, Marcus Bullock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brodwin, Paul,; Bullock, Marcus,; Fehervary, Helen,; Hassan, Ihab,; Kincaid, Andrew,; McCarthy, Conor,; Melas, Natalie,; Ortiz, Ricardo,; Paik, Peter Y.,; Rossbach, Stefan,; Samardzija, Zoran,; Supriya, K. E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bullock, Marcus,; Paik, Peter Y.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in International Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)

Aftermaths is a collection of essays offering compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora that have emerged in the global age. The ten contributors-well-established scholars and promising new voices-work in different disciplines and draw from diverse backgrounds as they present rich case...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. Exile as Origin
• Tales of Migration from Central America and Central Europe
• What They Left Behind - The Irish Landscape after Emigration
• II. The Spirituality of Exile
• The Dialectic of Marginality in the Haitian Community of Guadeloupe, French West Indies
• On the Metaphysics of Exile
• III. Diasporas and the Reinvention of the Local
• Pays rêvé, pays réel - Créolité and Its Diasporas
• Criticism, Exile, Ireland
• Edwidge Danticat's Latinidad - The Farming of Bones and the Cultivation (of Fields) of Knowledge
• IV. Migrant Fantasies
• The Great Migration Elsewhere
• Bending It Like Beckham - Sex, Soccer, and Traveling Indians
• Coming to the Antipodes - Migrancy, Travel, Homecoming
• Afterword - The Dialectics of Identity
• Notes on Contributors
• Index