{"product_id":"exile-cultures-misplaced-identities-9789042024069","title":"Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The edited collection brings together researchers on exile in international perspective from three continents who explore questions of exilic identity along multiple geopolitical and cultural axes—Cuba, the USA and Australia; Colombia and the USA; Algeria and France; Italy, France and Mexico; non-Han minorities and Han majorities in China; China, Tibet and India; Japan and China; New Caledonia, Vietnam and France; Hungary, the USSR, and Australia; and Germany, before and after unification. The international and crosscultural span of this collection represents an important addition to the fields of exile criticism and cultural identity studies. Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities will be of interest to readers, scholars and students of exile, diasporic and transmigration studies, international studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, language studies, and comparative literary studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly recommended collection that aims to “alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world.”\" – in: U 7 (10 August 2008)  \"This collection of diverse accounts on how exile is experienced and expressed across the globe promotes interdisciplinary discussion, which should be of interest to scholars in history, sociology, cultural and literary studies, as well as artists, writers and activists outside the academic sphere.\" – in: Transnational Literature 2 (1 November 2009)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Paul ALLATSON and Jo MCCORMACK: Introduction Susette COOKE: Becoming and Unbecoming Tu: Nation, Nationality and Exilic Agency in the People’s Republic of China David S.G. GOODMAN: Exile as Nationality: The Salar of Northwest China Obododimma OHA: Language, Exile, and the Burden of Undecidable Citizenship: Tenzin Tsundue and the Tibetan Experience Rowena WARD: Returning from Exile: The Japanese Citizens from the Former Manchuria Jo MCCORMACK: Memory and Exile: Contemporary France and the Algerian War (1954-1962) Ana DE MEDEIROS: The Language of Exile: Haunting Desires in Djebar’s La Disparition de la langue française Tess DO: Exile: Rupture and Continuity in Jean Vanmai’s Chân Dang and Fils de Chân Dang Yixu LÜ: Exiled in the Homeland: Heiner Müller’s Medea Sue HAJDÚ: Acceptance: on 1956: Desire and the Unknowable Maja MIKULA: Displacement and Shifting Geographies in the Noir Fiction of Cesare Battisti Jeff BROWITT:  “En híbrida mezcolanza” : Exile and Anxiety in Alirio Díaz Guerra’s Lucas Guevara Olga LORENZO: Shame, Nostalgia and Cuban American Cultural Identity in Fiction:  “la cubana arrepentida”  Marivic WYNDHAM: Dying in the New Country Devleena GHOSH: Coda: Eleven Stars Over the Last Moments of Andalusia About the Contributors Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210903019863,"sku":"9789042024069","price":105.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exile-cultures-misplaced-identities-9789042024069","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}