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Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader
Contributor(s): Braziel, Jana Evans (Editor), Mannur, Anita (Editor)
ISBN: 0631233911     ISBN-13: 9780631233916
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $179.14  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2003
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Annotation: Exploring the dispersion of populations and cultures across many geographic regions and spheres, diaspora studies has emerged as a vibrant area of research amid rapidly increasing transnationalism and globalization. Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader presents in a single volume the most influential and critically well-received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies and contemporary theorizations of diaspora as a specific terrain within, and beyond, postcolonial studies. The book offers classic statements that have defined the field by such scholars as Appadurai, Gilroy, Radhakrishnan, and Hall. Essays tackle a number of subjects and diasporic configurations across the globe: Chinese, Black African, Jewish, South Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean. Marking multinational and interdisciplinary theorizations of diaspora, and reflecting disciplinary modalities and methodologies of the humanities and social sciences, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space.
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater - General
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science | Media Studies
Dewey: 304.8
LCCN: 2002006549
Series: Keyworks in Cultural Studies
Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.32" W x 9.22" (1.41 lbs) 356 pages
 
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Bringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space.

  • Anthologizes the most influential and critically received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies.
  • Offers classic statements that have defined the field by scholars including Appadurai, Gilroy, Radhakrishnan, and Hall.
  • Presents divergent strains of multiple diasporas, including Chinese, Black African, Jewish, South Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean.
  • Reflects the modalities and methodologies of scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
  • Includes a postscript on diaspora in cyberspace and an extensive bibliography.