The Diaspora of the Imaginary in Politics and Poetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Introduction: Exploring the Interface of Diaspora, Law and Literature 1
5. Diaspora, the West and the Law 7
6. Towards a Grammar of the Multiverse 23
7. Close Encounters of the ‘Third’ Kind 41
8. Fair Hearing and Fair Play in Multicultural Societies 69
9. Critical Subjects of Belonging 89
10. Theorizing Reflexivity in Literature, Law and Diaspora 113
11. Overlapping Sovereignties 135
12. The Old Armenian Lawcode of Lemberg 155
13. The Diaspora of the Imaginary in Politics and Poetics 171
14. Cultural Mobility and Diaspora: The Case of Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock 187
15. Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go 205
16. Diasporic Fragments Coalescing: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost 223
17. The Indian Diaspora and Laws 247
18. Articulations Across Diaspora, Law and Literature 273
19. Queer Diasporas? Literary Diaspora Studies and the Law 293
20. Unaccustomed Earth: Diaspora on the Developing Reel 307
21. Melancholic Face-Off: Caryl Phillips’ Elegy over David Oluwale 327
22. Contributors 349
23. Index of names 355