Diasporic choices / / Renata Seredynska-Abou Eid.

• VerfasserIn: Seredynska-Abou Eid, Renata,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, U.K. : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume examines the complex and inter-disciplinary issue of diaspora in the context of globalisation and contributing social, historical and cultural factors of the modern world. Each chapter offers a distinct point of view and a particular way of understanding diasporas in numerous cultures and societies in different parts of the globe. The collection consists of a series of detailed analyses of aspects ranging from diasporic representations in the cinema, literature and poetry to diasporic projections in current socio-political and international matters. Each chapter provides an individual examination of a particular aspect of diaspora in order to frame a bigger picture of modern diasporic choices.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Renata Seredyńska-Abou Eid -- Particle/Wave: Cinema as Conservator in a Diasporic World / Catherine G. Carey -- Bollywood in Diaspora: Cherishing Occidentalist Nostalgia / Asma Sayed -- A Phenomenological Reading of Temporality and Natality in Relation to the Diasporic Indian Reception of the Bollywood Text with Reference to Mauritius / Farhad Abdool Kader Sulliman Khoyratty -- Yellow Sea: A Floating Home of Chinese Korean Minority / Mengyan YU (Yolanda) -- Transcending the Limitations of Diaspora as a Category of Cultural Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing around Your Neck / Elizabeth Jackson -- Esmeralda Santiago: Writing Memories, Creating a Nation / Anabela Alves -- Marriage Conventions in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane / Asma Mansoor -- Diaspoetics in the Literature of Karen Tei Yamashita: Brazilian and Japanese Diasporas Compared / Claudio Braga and Glaucia R. Gonçalves -- Global Cosmopolitanism and Diasporic Singularities / Jairus Omuteche -- Walcott’s Poetry: Portrayal of Broken Boundaries / Shri Krishan Rai and Anugamini Rai -- Gendered Diasporas across Generations: The New African Diaspora in Vancouver / Gillian Creese -- Young Migrant: Rooted Generations of Germany in Fatih Akin’s Films / Yildirim Uysal -- Linguistic Attitudes and Linguistic Practices in the Global Age: The Case of the First Generation of Serbian Highly Educated Migrants / Ana Jovanović and Ivana Vučina Simović -- Searching for Authenticity through Desire: Greek Canadian Women and the Heritage Fling / Anastasia Panagakos -- Diasporic Circassian National Identity: An Example of the Circassian Diaspora in Jordan / Natalia Agnieszka Hapek -- Traditional Rituals or Return of the Empire / Siranush Dvoyan -- Topological and Content Analysis of the Cyberspace of the Indian Diaspora / Eric Leclerc -- Un/settling Im/migrants: Towards Decolonising Immigrant-Indigenous Relationships / Nishant Upadhyay -- Magazine Contacto: The Construction and (Re)production of the Portuguese Diaspora in the Mediascape / Sónia Ferreira -- Cultural Adaptation and Translation as Motivation for Researching the Polish Diaspora in the United Kingdom / Renata Seredyńska-Abou Eid -- Wandering Dwellings: Diasporic Architectures / Sarah B. Gelbard.