Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging

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Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging

Edited by: Florian Kläger and Klaus Stierstorfer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

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Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science, anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural studies. Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in questions of dispersal and mobility. Based on the proceedings of an international conference by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network CoHaB, this volume undertakes to shift the focus to phenomena of home-making and the articulation of a sense of belonging in diasporic contexts. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines discuss a variety of historical and geographical instances of diasporas, exploring the methodological and theoretical challenges posed by the subjects of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’. Including an interview with Homi K. Bhabha on these subjects and the place of theory in diaspora studies as well as contributions by such central figures as Pnina Werbner and Ihab Hassan, the volume aims at offering a new prospectus of the range and potential of academic work on the cultural formations of diaspora.

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Klaus Stierstorfer and Florian Kläger, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Florian Kläger and Klaus Stierstorfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
‘Home’ and ‘Belonging’ in Diaspora Studies Now
Homi K. Bhabha in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer on “Diaspora and Home”¹ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Extraterritorial: Exile, Diaspora, and the Ground under Your Feet Ihab Hassan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
The Boundaries of Diaspora: A Critical Response to Brubaker Pnina Werbner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Mutations of the Trans-Migrare: Reflections on the Aesthetics of Individuation and Un-Homing on the Other Side of Belonging Rasha Chatta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Diasporic Selves: Memory, Identity, Agency
Hyphenated Homes: Elizabeth Jane Weston and the Diaspora of Early Modern English Catholics Sonja Fielitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
East German Constructions of Home in the Context of Intra-German Migration Movements Since 1989 Jaqueline Flack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Reflections on the Korean Diaspora in Manchuria Frank Jacob Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Home Work: Post-Fukushima Constructions of Furusato by Japanese Nationals Living in Belgium Andreas Niehaus and Tine Walravens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Diasporic Individuals – A Hidden Peace Building Capacity? Anita Janassary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Process of Integration among German Expellees in the GDR Gesa Bierwerth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Notions of Home and Belonging for Alteinwanderer and Neueinwanderer in the German-Speaking Community in Ottawa Anke Patzelt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Home and Belonging in a Semi-Diasporic Setting: Converts to ‘Reflexive Islam’ in West European Societies Milena Uhlmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Home-Making: Space, Virtuality, Ideology
Being Home through Learning Palestinian Sociality: Swedish-Palestinian Houses in the West Bank Nina Gren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
The Sanctification of Home in Late Medieval England Annette Kern-Stähler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Constituting Transareal Convivence via Portable Collection Books: Home and Belonging in Times of Uprootedness and Increased Mobility Annegret Pelz and Marianne Windsperger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
At Home Abroad? International House New York and the Cité Universitaire in Paris: Cosmopolitan versus Diasporic Internationalism Wim Weymans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
“Unfortunately, there is no plural for ‘Heimat’ in German”: Home and Belonging in German Naturalization Ceremonies Maria Jakob Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Becoming an American: Rethinking the United States Naturalization Policy Qianqian Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Chris Abani’s GraceLand: Constructing a Diasporic Space in a Postcolonial Metropolis Annika Bauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
No Place like Home? Conceptualizations of ‘Home’ in Salman Rushdie’s “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” and Roshi Fernando’s Homesick Stella Butter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Narratives of Belonging: (Hi‐)stories, Boundaries, Trajectories
Beyond the Hall: Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging in Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer Ricarda Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
(Non)Autochthonous Origins and the Question of Home and Exile in Nineteenthto Mid-Twentieth-Century English and Hebrew Literature Vered Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Geographies of Home: Constructions of Home and Belonging in Contemporary Emerging Adult Fiction Saskia Hertlein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
It All Depends on What You Mean by Home: Metaphors of Return in Chinese American Travel Memoirs from the 1980s to 2010s Jean Amato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Too Chinese/Too Cuban: Emotional Maps and the Quest for Happiness in Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting Elena Igartuburu García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Diasporic ‘Home’ and Transnational Identities in Gail Jones’ Five Bells Jaroslav Kušnír Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
German-Turkish Identity in Fatih Akin’s Head-On: Transgressing Gender Boundaries, Redefining Home and Belonging Verena von Eicken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Shared Pleasures and Strange Elisions: Three Types of Queer Ambiguity and ‘Return-Migration’ in Afrosporic Fiction Chantal Zabus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	513
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523

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eBook published on:

November 13, 2015

eBook ISBN:

9783110408614

Hardcover published on:

November 3, 2015

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110408195

Paperback published on:

November 7, 2017

Paperback ISBN:

9783110577815

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Front matter:

8

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531

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2

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2

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110408614

eBook ISBN: 9783110408614

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110408195

Paperback ISBN: 9783110577815

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Diaspora studies; Postcolonialism; Cultural studies; Constructions of Home

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Scholars interested in Diaspora Studies, literary and cultural studies and film studies

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