| Migrants and Cultural Memory: The Representation of Difference Contributor(s): O'Haodha, Micheal (Author) |
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ISBN: 1443811149 ISBN-13: 9781443811149 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $58.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Non-classifiable |
| Dewey: 305.906 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 8.1" (1.25 lbs) 140 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume explores the discourses and representations that have circumvented the image that is the Traveller, the Roma (Gypsy) and migrant Other. It is generally acknowledged that the globalisation and mass-media dissemination which characterise the current era have overseen a range of complex socio-cultural forces, many of which have blurred the once-reified borders of the post-Enlightenment, modern, nation-state. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of cultural diasporas and traditionally- nomadic groups such as Travellers, Roma and other migrant cultures. This book points to the ongoing reconfiguration of once-dominant cultural narratives and explores the manner whereby aspects of the migrant experience are themselves echoed in the increasingly hybrid and diverse discourses that characterise Western countries of the present-day. |