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Book SynopsisTransforming Diaspora brings together an eclectic collection of essays that challenges traditional understandings of the diasporic condition. Most studies of diaspora privilege place, thus creating a binary between homeland and hostland. This book argues that the emerging forces of transnationalism and globalization have rendered such a division obsolete. Rather, the editors posit transnationalism and globalization to be fundamental characteristics of contemporary diasporic communities. Exploring the effects of the present historical moment on diaspora, the essays examine the changes in the relationships between diasporas, homelands, and hostlands. The collection is divided into two broad categories. The first section offers reinterpretations of the fundamental understandings of diaspora. The second section explores the complex relationship between the theoretical concept of diaspora and the realities of daily life for diasporic citizens.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction. Transforming Diaspora: Communities Beyond National Boundaries Part 3 Part One. Challenging Diaspora: The Discourse of Dispersal Chapter 4 Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production Chapter 5 Urban Aboriginal Migration in North America: A Diasporic Identity Chapter 6 African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue Part 7 Part Two. The Living Diaspora: Cultural Constructions and Psychological Dimensions Chapter 8 Jews, Arabs, and the Virus of Diaspora in A. B. Yehoshua's The Liberated Bride Chapter 9 Domestic Liminality: Intermarriage in the Diaspora Chapter 10 Global Citizens in Local Homes: Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz in the Diaspora Chapter 11 That's what I need to believe': Atom Egoyan's Ararat and the Heuristic Potential of 'Diaspora' Chapter 12 Unfolding Dual Diaspora in Minority Fiction of Singaporeans Abroad: The Dead Other At Home in Josephine Chia's Shadows Across the Sun Chapter 13 Afterword. Against the Grain: Diaspora Studies at the Crossroads
