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Diaspora, memory and identity : a search for home / edited by Vijay Agnew.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (x, 308 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442673878
  • 1442673877
  • 1281991759
  • 9781281991751
  • 9786611991753
  • 6611991751
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Diaspora, memory and identity.DDC classification:
  • 305.9/06912 22
LOC classification:
  • JV7220 .D53 2005
Other classification:
  • MS 1560
  • MS 3600
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
Contents:
Language matters / Vijay Agnew -- Memories of internment: narrating Japanese-Canadian women's life stories / Pamela Sugiman -- Wounding events and the limits of autobiography / Marlene Kadar -- Memoirs of a Sirdar's daughter in Canada: hybridity and writing home / Rishma Dunlop -- Ghosts and shadows: memory and resilience among the Eritrean diaspora / Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson -- A diasporic bounty: cultural history and heritage / Vijay Agnew -- Diaspora and cultural memory / Anh Hua -- Gendered nostalgia: the experiences of new Chinese skilled immigrants in Canada / Izumi Sakamoto and Yanqiu Rachel Zhou -- "I fell like a Trini": narrative of a generation-and-a-half Canadian / Carl E. James -- The "Muslim" diaspora and research on gender: promises and perils / Haideh Moghissi -- The quest for the soul in the diaspora / Vijay Agnew.
Summary: <I>Diaspora, Memory, and Identity</i> is an exciting and innovative collection of essays that examines the nuanced development of theories of Diaspora, subjectivity, double-consciousness, gender and class experiences, and the nature of home.
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Language matters / Vijay Agnew -- Memories of internment: narrating Japanese-Canadian women's life stories / Pamela Sugiman -- Wounding events and the limits of autobiography / Marlene Kadar -- Memoirs of a Sirdar's daughter in Canada: hybridity and writing home / Rishma Dunlop -- Ghosts and shadows: memory and resilience among the Eritrean diaspora / Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson -- A diasporic bounty: cultural history and heritage / Vijay Agnew -- Diaspora and cultural memory / Anh Hua -- Gendered nostalgia: the experiences of new Chinese skilled immigrants in Canada / Izumi Sakamoto and Yanqiu Rachel Zhou -- "I fell like a Trini": narrative of a generation-and-a-half Canadian / Carl E. James -- The "Muslim" diaspora and research on gender: promises and perils / Haideh Moghissi -- The quest for the soul in the diaspora / Vijay Agnew.

Print version record.

<I>Diaspora, Memory, and Identity</i> is an exciting and innovative collection of essays that examines the nuanced development of theories of Diaspora, subjectivity, double-consciousness, gender and class experiences, and the nature of home.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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