Growing Up Transnational : : Identity and Kinship in a Global Era /

Growing Up Transnational : : Identity and Kinship in a Global Era / / May Friedman, Silvia Schultermandl.

Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "Where are you from?" Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework to look at the inter...

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VerfasserIn:
Friedman, May,
Schultermandl, Silvia,
MitwirkendeR:
Devasahayam, Theresa W.,
Dong, Lan,
Friedman, May,
Kenny, Erin,
Križ, Katrin,
Manandhar, Uday,
Marcus, Alan P.,
Papayiannis, Noula,
Povozhaev, Lea,
Rahman, Noor Abdul,
Schultermandl, Silvia,
Toplu, Șebnem,
Veissière, Samuel,
Vigo, Julian,
Šesnić, Jelena,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2011
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: REDEFINING SELF
  • 1. Transnational Rio de Janeiro: (Re)visiting Geographical Experiences
  • 2. When Russia Came to Stay
  • 3. 'Neither the End of the World nor the Beginning': Transnational Identity Politics in Lisa Suhair Majaj's Self-Writing
  • 4. Identity and Belonging among Second-Generation Greek and Italian Canadian Women
  • 5. Time and Space in the Life of Pierre S. Weiss: Autoethnographic Engagements with Memory and Trans/Dis/Location
  • PART TWO: REDEFINING NATION
  • 6. Contemporary Croatian Film and the New Social Economy
  • 7. Identity, Bodies, and Second-Generation Returnees in West Africa
  • 8. What Is an Autobiographical Author? Becoming the Other
  • 9. Transnational Identity Mappings in Andrea Levy's Fiction
  • PART THREE: REDEFINING FAMILY
  • 10. The Personal, the Political, and the Complexity of Identity: Some Thoughts on Mothering
  • 11. Mothers on the Move: Experiences of Indonesian Women Migrant Workers
  • 12. From Changowitz to Bailey Wong: Mixed Heritage and Transnational Families in Gish Jen's Fiction
  • 13. Tug of War: The Gender Dynamics of Parenting in a Bi/Transnational Family
  • Notes and Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Contributors

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