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Book SynopsisThe first introduction to the field of Diaspora criticism that serves both as a timely guide and a rigorous critique.
Trade ReviewSudesh Mishra's ambitious and sophisticated book represents perhaps the most serious attempt so far to bring together and assess the critical potential of all that has been written in the last two or three decades connecting globalization and migration to new cultural and political theory. Mishra is to be applauded for the skill and objectivity with which he writes both as an insider to this field and as its probing critic. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, author of Provincializing Europe Diaspora Criticism is a deeply reflective and critical contribution to the growing and important field of Diaspora studies. The book makes a powerful case for taking seriously the relationship of diasporic social and cultural practices with globalization's economic dimensions. A compelling work of cultural criticism. -- Professor Gyan Prakash, author of Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India and Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University Sudesh Mishra's ambitious and sophisticated book represents perhaps the most serious attempt so far to bring together and assess the critical potential of all that has been written in the last two or three decades connecting globalization and migration to new cultural and political theory. Mishra is to be applauded for the skill and objectivity with which he writes both as an insider to this field and as its probing critic. Diaspora Criticism is a deeply reflective and critical contribution to the growing and important field of Diaspora studies. The book makes a powerful case for taking seriously the relationship of diasporic social and cultural practices with globalization's economic dimensions. A compelling work of cultural criticism.
Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1 Prologue to a Generic Event; Chapter 2 The Scene of Dual Territoriality; Chapter 3 The Scene of Situational Laterality; Chapter 4 The Scene of Archival Specificity; Chapter 5 The Three Pillars of Diaspora Criticism; Chapter 6 In Lieu of an Epilogue.
