Theorizing Diaspora A Reader

by Braziel, Jana Evans; Mannur, Anita

• ISBN13: 9780631233916
• ISBN10: 0631233911
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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. Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader 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. The 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. Marking multinational and interdisciplinary theorizations of diaspora, and reflecting disciplinary modalities and methodologies of the humanities and social sciences, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space.

Author Biography

Jana Evans Braziel 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 Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (with Kathleen LeBesco, 2001).

Anita Mannur is a postdoctoral fellow in Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points of Contention in Diaspora Studies	1	(22)
Jana Evans Braziel
Anita Mannur
Part I Modernity, Globalism, and Diaspora	23	(60)
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy	25	(24)
Arjun Appadurai
The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity	49	(34)
Paul Gilroy
Additional Readings on Modernity, Globalism, and Diaspora	81	(2)
Part II Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora	83	(78)
Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Diaspora	85	(34)
Daniel Boyarin
Jonathan Boyarin
Ethnicity in an Age of Diaspora	119	(13)
R. Radhakrishnan
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian-American Differences	132	(29)
Lisa Lowe
Additional Readings on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora	156	(5)
Part III Sexuality, Gender, and Diaspora	161	(70)
Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony	163	(21)
Rey Chow
Returning(s): Relocating the Critical Feminist Auto-Ethnographer	184	(23)
Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics and the Diasporic Dilemma	207	(24)
Martin F. Manalansan IV
Additional Readings on Sexuality, Gender, and Diaspora	228	(3)
Part IV Cultural Production and Diaspora	231	(52)
Cultural Identity and Diaspora	233	(14)
Stuart Hall
Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination: The Aesthetics of Black Independent Film in Britain	247	(14)
Kobena Mercer
Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion	261	(22)
Gayatri Gopinath
Additional Readings on Cultural Production and Diaspora	280	(3)
Postscript: Cyberscapes and the Interfacing of Diasporas	283	(8)
Anita Mannur
Additional Readings on Diaspora and Cyberelectronics	291	(1)
Select Bibliography of Works on Diaspora	292	(38)
Index	330