Borders, exiles, diasporas

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Borders, exiles, diasporas

edited by Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton

（Cultural sitings）

Stanford University Press, 1998

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

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: cloth ISBN 9780804729055

内容説明

How do the concepts "border," "exile," and "diaspora" shape individual and group identities across cultures? Taking this question as a point of departure, this wide-ranging volume explores the ways that people create and represent a home away from home. Throughout, the authors emphasize the multiple subjectivities, cultural displacements, and identity politics that have characterized the postcolonial and post-World War II eras. They simultaneously affirm and challenge previous understandings of these three terms, and they investigate their malleability-the extent to which they apply to diverse communities. Once the idea of diaspora is dissociated from the historical experiences of a particular group of people, it becomes a universal designation, applicable to all displaced groups. This understanding of diaspora also allows for the creation of a "nonnormative" intellectual community, one experienced by many contemporary critics and with which they identify. In the postcolonial context, a global "middle voice" emerges that incorporates the critic and his or her identity as the participant-observer of the discourses on identity. As personal narratives transcend the autobiographical, they become indispensable guarantors of a free theoretical field, without a priori boundaries. The diaspora's voice is thus national and cultural, but it lacks the nation or the geographical definition that would constrain its subject. The essays in this volume approach the ideas of border, exile, and diaspora primarily as subjects of literary representations while recognizing the political stakes of diasporic identity. They synthesize the poetic with the political, but they also probe the existential consequences of displacement and cultural dislocation. The essays compel us to examine, within a dialogical complex, antagonistic but concurrent phenomena endowed with a new internal logic. This volume serves as a canvas representing the open-ended, discontinuous, and syncretic nature of the postmodern world. Rather than give definitive answers, the essays provide contingent responses to the myriad questions about culture, identity, and language embedded in modern history.

目次

  • Introduction Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton
  • Part I. Pleasures of Exile: 1. The dilemma of the 'but': writing Germanness after the Holocaust Angelika Bammer
  • 2. Redressing the 'German-Jewish': a Jewish hermaphrodite and cross-dresser in Wilhelmine Germany David Brenner
  • 3. Accenting L. A.: central Europeans in diasporan Hollywood in the 1940s Catherine Portuges
  • 4. Scraps of culture: African style in the African American community of Los Angeles Leslie W. Rabine
  • 5. Coming of age in Zambesis Jane Hotchkiss
  • 6. Pleasure's exile: Reinaldo Arenas's last writing Ricardo L. Ortiz
  • Part II. Modernist Transgressions: 7. Defiance and reconciliation in Paul Celan's Die Niemandrose Erin G. Carlston
  • 8. Mimesis, mimicry, and critical theory in exile: Walter Benjamin's approach to the College de Sociologie Tyrus Miller
  • 9. 'Sharing the unshareable': Jabes, deconstruction, and the thought of the 'Jews' Joan Brandt
  • 10. On the exile of words in the American simulacrum: a free exercise in Wittgensteinian cultural critique Daniel Herwitz
  • 11. Antonin Artaud's itinerary through exile and insanity Renee Riese Hubert
  • Part III. Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters: 12. Immigration, poster art, and transgressive citizenship: France, 1968-1988 Francoise Lionnet
  • 13. Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven: Diasporic displacement and the feminization of the landscape Wendy W. Walters
  • 14. Monstrosity and representation in the postcolonial diaspora: The Satanic Verses, Ulysses, and Frankenstein Ronald Bush
  • 15. Cultural Mettissage and the play of identity in Leia Sebbar's Sherazade trilogy Anne Donadey
  • 16. Fatal nationality: Sulayman Fayyad's novel Voices Emily A. Haddad
  • 17. Borders, exiles, minor literatures: the case of Palestinian-Israeli writing Rena N. Potok
  • 18. The poetics and politics of space in J. M. G. Le Clezio's Etoile errante Walter Putnam
  • Index.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780804729062

内容説明

How do the concepts border, exile, and diaspora shape individual and group identities across cultures? Taking this question as a point of departure, this wide-ranging volume explores the ways that people create and represent a home away from home. Throughout, the authors emphasize the multiple subjectivities, cultural displacements, and identity politics that have characterized the postcolonial and post-World War II eras. They simultaneously affirm and challenge previous understandings of these three terms, and they investigate their malleability the extent to which they apply to diverse communities. Once the idea of diaspora is dissociated from the historical experiences of a particular group of people, it becomes a universal designation, applicable to all displaced groups. This understanding of diaspora also allows for the creation of a nonnormative intellectual community, one experienced by many contemporary critics and with which they identify. In the postcolonial context, a global middle voice emerges that incorporates the critic and his or her identity as the participant-observer of the discourses on identity. As personal narratives transcend the autobiographical, they become indispensable guarantors of a free theoretical field, without a priori boundaries. The diaspora s voice is thus national and cultural, but it lacks the nation or the geographical definition that would constrain its subject.

目次

  • Introduction Elazar Barkan and Marie-Denise Shelton
  • Part I. Pleasures of Exile: 1. The dilemma of the 'but': writing Germanness after the Holocaust Angelika Bammer
  • 2. Redressing the 'German-Jewish': a Jewish hermaphrodite and cross-dresser in Wilhelmine Germany David Brenner
  • 3. Accenting L. A.: central Europeans in diasporan Hollywood in the 1940s Catherine Portuges
  • 4. Scraps of culture: African style in the African American community of Los Angeles Leslie W. Rabine
  • 5. Coming of age in Zambesis Jane Hotchkiss
  • 6. Pleasure's exile: Reinaldo Arenas's last writing Ricardo L. Ortiz
  • Part II. Modernist Transgressions: 7. Defiance and reconciliation in Paul Celan's Die Niemandrose Erin G. Carlston
  • 8. Mimesis, mimicry, and critical theory in exile: Walter Benjamin's approach to the College de Sociologie Tyrus Miller
  • 9. 'Sharing the unshareable': Jabes, deconstruction, and the thought of the 'Jews' Joan Brandt
  • 10. On the exile of words in the American simulacrum: a free exercise in Wittgensteinian cultural critique Daniel Herwitz
  • 11. Antonin Artaud's itinerary through exile and insanity Renee Riese Hubert
  • Part III. Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters: 12. Immigration, poster art, and transgressive citizenship: France, 1968-1988 Francoise Lionnet
  • 13. Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven: Diasporic displacement and the feminization of the landscape Wendy W. Walters
  • 14. Monstrosity and representation in the postcolonial diaspora: The Satanic Verses, Ulysses, and Frankenstein Ronald Bush
  • 15. Cultural Mettissage and the play of identity in Leia Sebbar's Sherazade trilogy Anne Donadey
  • 16. Fatal nationality: Sulayman Fayyad's novel Voices Emily A. Haddad
  • 17. Borders, exiles, minor literatures: the case of Palestinian-Israeli writing Rena N. Potok
  • 18. The poetics and politics of space in J. M. G. Le Clezio's Etoile errante Walter Putnam
  • Index.

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