Title Writing diaspora in the West : intimacy, identity and the new marginalism / Peter McCarthy

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 179 pages) Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- First Person Reflection: Origins of the Marginal Disposition -- Of Home and Hearth: Maps, Histories and Territorial Claims -- The Subject Missing: Erasure and the Reflective Margin -- Conflation, Contradiction and the Colonised Mind -- The Curious Heimat: Fetishism, Rupture, Boundary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary In Writing Diaspora in the West, Peter McCarthy argues that the surveyors and theoreticians of modern human subjectivity have discovered in the margins a motherland, nourishing and nurturing them in the fantastic culture of what he terms the 'new marginalism'. This culture, McCarthy argues, is the product of a certain fantasy, the projection of a subjective homeland onto the various margins of discourse, subjectivity, history and geography that goes beyond a Left minoritarian ethos. This fantasy leads to a certain marginal affectivity, a fascination and identification with things perceived at the margins or bounds of a psychopathological homeland, especially with those who live or subsist there. McCarthy's work stands as a challenge to liberal critical orthodoxies concerning the representation of marginal experience Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Human beings -- Migrations. Migrations of nations. Migrations of nations in literature. Ethnic groups. Ethnic groups in literature. Ethnicity. Ethnicity in literature. Material culture. Material culture in literature. Ethnicity ethnic groups. ethnicity. material culture (discipline) History of ideas. Literary theory. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Society. Ethnic groups Ethnic groups in literature Ethnicity Ethnicity in literature Human beings -- Migrations Material culture Material culture in literature Migrations of nations Migrations of nations in literature Migration Marginalität Diaspora Religion Randgruppe Heimatlosigkeit Kultur Society. diaspora -- marginalité -- transnationalisme. diaspora -- marginalité -- post-colonialisme. Diaspora. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230233843 0230233848

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