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Title Diasporic constructions of home and belonging / edited by Florian Kläger and Klaus Stierstorfer
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2015

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Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 'Home' and 'Belonging' in Diaspora Studies Now -- Homi K. Bhabha in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer on "Diaspora and Home"¹ -- Extraterritorial: Exile, Diaspora, and the Ground under Your Feet -- The Boundaries of Diaspora: A Critical Response to Brubaker -- Mutations of the Trans-Migrare: Reflections on the Aesthetics of Individuation and Un-Homing on the Other Side of Belonging -- Diasporic Selves: Memory, Identity, Agency -- Hyphenated Homes: Elizabeth Jane Weston and the Diaspora of Early Modern English Catholics -- East German Constructions of Home in the Context of Intra-German Migration Movements Since 1989 -- Reflections on the Korean Diaspora in Manchuria -- Home Work: Post-Fukushima Constructions of Furusato by Japanese Nationals Living in Belgium -- Diasporic Individuals -- A Hidden Peace Building Capacity? -- The Process of Integration among German Expellees in the GDR -- Notions of Home and Belonging for Alteinwanderer and Neueinwanderer in the German-Speaking Community in Ottawa -- Home and Belonging in a Semi-Diasporic Setting: Converts to 'Reflexive Islam' in West European Societies -- Home-Making: Space, Virtuality, Ideology -- Being Home through Learning Palestinian Sociality: Swedish-Palestinian Houses in the West Bank -- The Sanctification of Home in Late Medieval England -- Constituting Transareal Convivence via Portable Collection Books: Home and Belonging in Times of Uprootedness and Increased Mobility -- At Home Abroad? International House New York and the Cité Universitaire in Paris: Cosmopolitan versus Diasporic Internationalism -- "Unfortunately, there is no plural for 'Heimat' in German": Home and Belonging in German Naturalization Ceremonies -- Becoming an American: Rethinking the United States Naturalization Policy -- Chris Abani's GraceLand: Constructing a Diasporic Space in a Postcolonial Metropolis -- No Place like Home? Conceptualizations of 'Home' in Salman Rushdie's "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers" and Roshi Fernando's Homesick -- Narratives of Belonging: (Hi- )stories, Boundaries, Trajectories -- Beyond the Hall: Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging in Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer -- (Non)Autochthonous Origins and the Question of Home and Exile in Nineteenthto Mid-Twentieth-Century English and Hebrew Literature -- Geographies of Home: Constructions of Home and Belonging in Contemporary Emerging Adult Fiction -- It All Depends on What You Mean by Home: Metaphors of Return in Chinese American Travel Memoirs from the 1980s to 2010s -- Too Chinese/Too Cuban: Emotional Maps and the Quest for Happiness in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting -- Diasporic 'Home' and Transnational Identities in Gail Jones' Five Bells -- German-Turkish Identity in Fatih Akin's Head-On: Transgressing Gender Boundaries, Redefining Home and Belonging -- Shared Pleasures and Strange Elisions: Three Types of Queer Ambiguity and 'Return-Migration' in Afrosporic Fiction -- List of Contributors -- Index
Summary Our globalised world is shaped by migration, with large numbers of individuals and groups or even nations on the move. Stable concepts of home and belonging have become the exception rather than the rule. Academic engagements with diaspora, too, have long attended more to the notion of dispersal rather than settlement. This book widens the traditional focus of diaspora studies by extending it to the diasporic construction of home and belonging
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Belonging (Social psychology)
Home in literature.
Collective memory.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Collective memory
Home in literature
Heimat Motiv
Literatur
Identität Motiv
Migration Motiv
Form Electronic book
Author Kläger, Florian, editor
Stierstorfer, Klaus, editor
ISBN 9783110408614
3110408619
9783110408690
3110408694