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Book SynopsisDiaspora, Memory, and Identity is an exciting and innovative collection of essays that examines the nuanced development of theories of Diaspora, subjectivity, double-consciousness, gender and class experiences, and the nature of home.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction VIJAY AGNEW Part 1: Diaspora and Memory * Language Matters VIJAY AGNEW * Memories of Internment: Narrating Japanese-Canadian Women's Life Stories PAMELA SUGIMAN * Wounding Events and the Limits of Autobiography MARLENE KADAR Part 2: History and Identity * Memoirs of a Sirdar's Daughter in Canada: Hybridity and Writing Home RISHMA DUNLOP * Ghosts and Shadows: Memory and Resilience among the Eritrean Diaspora ATSUKO MATSUOKA and JOHN SORENSON * A Diasporic Bounty: Cultural History and Heritage VIJAY AGNEW Part 3: Community and Home * Diaspora and Cultural Memory ANH HUA * Gendered Nostalgia: The Experiences of New Chinese Skilled Immigrants in Canada IZUMI SAKAMOTO and YANQIU RACHEL ZHOU * 'I Feel Like a Trini': Narrative of a Generation-and-a-Half Canadian 230 CARL E. JAMES * The 'Muslim' Diaspora and Research on Gender: Promises and Perils HAIDEH MOGHISSI * The Quest for the Soul in the Diaspora VIJAY AGNEW Afterword SUSAN E. BABBITT Contributors