Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: “We can’t hang Xanana there!” On the Politics of Representing Community 1
4. Chapter 1 East Timor: A History of the Present 18
5. Chapter 2 Leaving the Crocodile: The East Timorese Community in Sydney 41
6. Chapter 3 Nation, Transnation, Diaspora: Locating East Timorese Long Distance Nationalism 61
7. Chapter 4 Embodying Exile: Embodied Memory and the Role of Trauma, Affect, Politics, and Religion in the Formation of Identities in Exile 89
8. Chapter 5 Locating East Timoreseness in Australia: Layers of Hybridity, Anchored and Enmeshed 123
9. Chapter 6 From Exile to Diaspora? On Identity, Belonging, and the (Im)Possibility of Return Home 163
10. Chapter 7 Conclusion: Independence Day: Looking to the Future 201
11. Afterword: January 2005 206
12. Notes 211
13. Glossary 219
14. Bibliography 223
15. Index 231
16. Acknowledgments 237