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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: REDEFINING SELF
6. 1. Transnational Rio de Janeiro: (Re)visiting Geographical Experiences 21
7. 2. When Russia Came to Stay 36
8. 3. ‘Neither the End of the World nor the Beginning’: Transnational Identity Politics in Lisa Suhair Majaj’s Self-Writing 55
9. 4. Identity and Belonging among Second-Generation Greek and Italian Canadian Women 69
10. 5. Time and Space in the Life of Pierre S. Weiss: Autoethnographic Engagements with Memory and Trans/Dis/Location 84
11. PART TWO: REDEFINING NATION
12. 6. Contemporary Croatian Film and the New Social Economy 103
13. 7. Identity, Bodies, and Second-Generation Returnees in West Africa 119
14. 8. What Is an Autobiographical Author? Becoming the Other 140
15. 9. Transnational Identity Mappings in Andrea Levy’s Fiction 160
16. PART THREE: REDEFINING FAMILY
17. 10. The Personal, the Political, and the Complexity of Identity: Some Thoughts on Mothering 181
18. 11. Mothers on the Move: Experiences of Indonesian Women Migrant Workers 190
19. 12. From Changowitz to Bailey Wong: Mixed Heritage and Transnational Families in Gish Jen’s Fiction 210
20. 13. Tug of War: The Gender Dynamics of Parenting in a Bi/Transnational Family 222
21. Notes and Acknowledgments 233
22. References 243
23. Contributors 263