The dispersion : : a history of the word diaspora / / by Stephane Dufoix.
Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In The Dispersion , Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English French |
| Series: | Brill's Specials in Modern History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (601 pages) :; illustrations (some color ), maps, tables. |
| Notes: | Originally published in French under title: La dispersion. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction. Towards a Historical Socio-semantics of a Word in Vogue
- Introduction to Part 1
- The Word of the Septuagint
- The Religious Space of Dispersion
- Towards a Secular Concept
- Introduction to Part 2
- Next Year in Ethiopia: Blacks at the Jewish Mirror
- A Name of One’s Own: The Emergence of the Black/African Diaspora
- The Reversal
- Introduction to Part 3
- Constructing the Field of Diaspora Studies
- The Critical Turn
- States and Their Diasporas
- Conclusion. Two Cats and Three Demons
- Bibliography
- Index of Names.