Ghosts and Shadows : : Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora / / Atsuko Matsuoka.
Focusing on African diaspora groups that have been virtually ignored in discussions of Canadian multiculturalism - Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Oromos - Ghosts and Shadows explores the re-creation of communities in exile and the invisible forces that haunt them through myths of 'homeland' an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acronyms
- Map
- 1. A Ghost Story
- 2. A Haunted House
- 3. Shadowlands: Diaspora Movements
- 4. Exile, Memory, Identity
- 5. Gender Relations in the Diaspora
- 6. Abyssinian Fundamentalism and Diaspora Mythico-Histories
- 7. More Real Than a Shadow
- 8. Phantoms of Identity and 'Race'
- 9. Ghostly Returns
- Bibliography
- Index