{"product_id":"theorizing-diaspora-isbn-9780631233916","title":"Theorizing Diaspora","description":"Bringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnthologizes the most influential and critically received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers classic statements that have defined the field by scholars including Appadurai, Gilroy, Radhakrishnan, and Hall.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents divergent strains of multiple diasporas, including Chinese, Black African, Jewish, South Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReflects the modalities and methodologies of scholars across the humanities and social sciences.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a postscript on diaspora in cyberspace and an extensive bibliography.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eNation, Migration, Globalization: Points Of Contention In Diaspora Studies. (Jana Evans Braziel And Anita Mannur).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy. (Arjun Appadurai).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Black Atlantic As A Counterculture Of Modernity. (Paul Gilroy).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings On Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Diaspora: Generational Ground Of Jewish Diaspora. (Daniel Boyarin And Jonathan Boyarin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Ethnicity In An Age Of Diaspora. (R. Radhakrishnan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American Differences. (Lisa Lowe).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings On Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Against The Lures Of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women And Intellectual Hegemony. (Rey Chow).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Returning(S): Relocating The Critical Feminist Auto-Ethnographer. (Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. In The Shadows Of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics And The Diasporic Dilemma. (Martin F. Manalansan IV).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings In Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Cultural Production And Diaspora.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Cultural Identity And Diaspora Stuart Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Diaspora Culture And The Dialogic Imagination. (Kobena Mercer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities In Motion. (Gayatri Gopinath).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings On Cultural Production And Diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-Script: Cyber-Scapes And The Interfacing Of Diaspora. (Anita Mannur).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional Readings On Diaspora And Cyberelectronics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography of Works on Diaspora (Anita Mannur).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Diaspora is one of the most critically debated terms in contemporary discussions of migration and identity. Bringing together key essays in the field, this superb collection offers us a comprehensive overview of diaspora's past politics and potential futures. Above all, it reminds us that diaspora is a distinctly human phenomenon, involving the displacement, movement, and separation of peoples.\" \u003ci\u003eDavid L. Eng, Columbia University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTheorizing Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e speaks not only to those previously colonized and oppressed Others who have relocated from There to Here, but discusses why deracination is a process that affects all constituencies: those in the newly inhabited metropolis as well as those who remain behind.\" \u003ci\u003eGrant Farred, Duke University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJana Evans Braziel\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. In 2002–3 she was Five College Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College. She has written widely on diaspora and cultural studies, and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eBodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression\u003c\/i\u003e (with Kathleen LeBesco, 2001).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnita Mannur\u003c\/b\u003e is a postdoctoral fellow in Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.\u003c\/p\u003e  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. \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Diaspora: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarking multinational and interdisciplinary theorizations of diaspora, and reflecting disciplinary modalities and methodologies of the humanities and social sciences, \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990380069093,"sku":"NP9780631233916","price":143.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631233916.jpg?v=1761787592","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/theorizing-diaspora-isbn-9780631233916","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}