Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora
- 302 pages
- English
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Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora
About this book
This collection explores our fascination with homes across time, cultures, and disciplines while unpacking the relationship between private yearning and public belonging, illustrating the limitations and fluidity of identity and affiliation through the idea of homes and ancestral homelands.
While rooted in comparative literature and critical art history in the context of diaspora studies, the book's approach intersects with cultural geography, gender and sexuality studies, critical race theory, architecture, urban studies, film studies, nationalism, postcolonial theory, sociology, and migration studies. Conceived as relational and changing, the collection emphasizes that home/homeland studies are plural and fluctuating concepts encompassing multi-local affiliations, places, gender roles, languages, practices, relations, and power.
In this tangled site of contesting national discourses, affiliations, nostalgias, and ideologies, we can uncover valuable insight into how we construct the story of ourselves through traveling bodies, spaces, homes, and mixed geographies.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Beyond Borders: Diasporic Explorations of Homes and Ancestral Homelands
- Part I Homelands, Nations, and Migrations: Hardening and Softening of Borders and Boundaries
- Part II Fluid Homes, Fluid Identities: Gender Roles and Multi-layered Notions of Home
- Part III Diasporic Imaginings of Homemaking and Community Building
- Part IV Transnational Return: Trajectories of Ancestral Homeland Narratives
- Selected Bibliography
- Index