Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures

Igor Maver

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216281382
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African Literary Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

Diasporic writing simultaneously asserts a sense of belonging and expresses a sense of being 'ethnic' in a society of immigration. The essays in this volume explore how contemporary diasporic writers in English use their works to mediate this dissonance and seek to work through the ethical, political, and personal affiliations of diasporic identities and subjectivities. The essays call for a remapping of post-colonial literatures and a reevaluation of the Anglophone literary canon by including post-colonial diasporic literary discourses. Demonstrating that an intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must in our post-colonial world, this volume is a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and identities.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 01. “Not Belonging, but Longing”: Shifts of Emphasis in Contemporary Diasporic Writing in English Canada
• Chapter 02. Canadian New Diasporic Writing and Transnational/Borderland Literary Identities
• Chapter 03. The Diaspora Writes Back: Cultural Memory and Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
• Chapter 04. Translational Identities and the Émigré Experience
• Chapter 05. Between the Island and the City: Cultural Brokerage in Caribbean-Canadian Short Fiction
• Chapter 06. The Child of New Norcia: Alf Taylor’s Poetry
• Chapter 07. The Englishness of Maori Writing
• Chapter 08. The Afrosporic Migration of Genital Alterations to the New Europe: Trauma, the Law, and the Internet
• Chapter 09. Diaspora in the Family: Father and Mother Figures in Canadian Theater
• Chapter 10. Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal’s Tourism: How to Exploit Diaspora and Live Happily Ever After
• Index
• About the Contributors