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Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures

Editat de Bouchra Benlemlih, Lahoussine Hamdoune Contribuţii de Rachid Acim, Sihem Arfaoui, Lava Asaad, Shibani Banerjee, Khadija Belhiah, Yu Min Claire Chen, Laureano Corces, Paul Jahshan, Boutheina Khaldi, Azize Kour, Tara Moore, Lhoussain Simour, S¸emsettin Tabur
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Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores the myriad aspects of identity formation and identity representation in an increasingly globalized world. Covering a variety of cultural and historical experiences in addition to several texts of world literatures, the contributors discuss the configurations of transnationality and transculturality in our postcolonial and globalized world. Acknowledging that nationality, ethnicity, gender, and class are continually shaped by historical processes, the contributors hone in on the ways that the increase in mobility via migration, diaspora, and exile render identities always in transit In the face of structural inequalities and social injustices predominant in this context, the chapters reflect on the moral obligations of representation. This collection will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781793624321
ISBN-10: 1793624321
Pagini: 332
Dimensiuni: 161 x 229 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Foreword
Eugene Chen Eoyang

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Bouchra Benlemlih and Lahoussine Hamdoune

Part I: Identities in Transit: Self, Nation beyond 'Imperial Globality'
Chapter One: Be-coming a Rhizome: The Contingencies of the Self in the Posthuman Age
Paul Jahshan

Chapter Two: Belonging and (Un) belonging in The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei, Memories of Peking: South Side Stories and The Lost Garden
Yu Min Claire Chen

Chapter Three: Resisting Hegemonic Discourses in Abdelhak Serhane's Novels: Empire, Nation, and Gender
Azize Kour

Chapter Four: Identity Crisis, Retaliation and Deliberations of Women in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers
Shibani Banerjee

Part II: Across Borders and Thresholds: Identities in Diaspora Narratives
Chapter Five: The National and the Transnational: Negotiating Identity in Leila Aboulela's Minaret
Bouchra Benlemlih

Chapter Six: Clandestine Bodies in Transit: Refugees' Pipe Dreams in Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Exit West

Recenzii

This monumental book, investigating central questions about how complex, transnational, diasporic identities are shaped in the context of displacement and mobility, demonstrates how literary accounts offer guides for understanding the culturally particular in global contexts. The multidirectional gaze of the scholars and the texts discussed provides a dynamic model for understanding identity in transit. Readers looking for both literature and commentary that challenge East/West binaries will find those voices here, in a profound exploration of memory, home, and displacement.
Global Identities in Transit is a timely and interdisciplinary collection that invites us to rethink the formation of identity in an era of increased cultural encounters and mobility. By challenging nation-based thinking and emphasizing the plurality and polycentricity of the world, this important volume sheds much-needed light on multiple migrations, transnational narratives, and ethics of representation in ways that promote equity and challenge the legacies of nationalisms, colonialism, and dehumanization.
This is a welcome contribution to diaspora studies that sheds new light on well-known writers and introduces more recent ones.