Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-colonial Literatures

by Maver, Igor; Albertazzi, Silvia; Ballyn, Susan; Birkle, Carmen; Howells, Coral Ann; Kamboureli, Smaro; Kennedy, Melissa; Marra, Giulio; Weiss, Timothy; Zabus, Chantal

• ISBN13: 9780739129708
• ISBN10: 0739129708
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Diasporic writing simultaneously asserts a sense of belonging and expresses a sense of being ethnic in a society of immigration. The essays in this volume explore how contemporary diasporic writers in English use their works to mediate this dissonance and seek to work through the ethical, political, and personal affiliations of diasporic identities and subjectivities. The essays call for a remapping of post-colonial literatures and a reevaluation of the Anglophone literary canon by including post-colonial diasporic literary discourses. Demonstrating that an intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must in our post-colonial world on the way to a transcultural future, this volume is a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and identities. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Igor Maver is professor of English in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Positioning Diasporic Literary Cultures	p. ix
"Not Belonging, but Longing": Shifts of Emphasis in Contemporary Diasporic Writing in English Canada	p. 1
Canadian New Diasporic Writing and Transnational/Borderland Literary Identities	p. 17
The Diaspora Writes Back: Cultural Memory and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost	p. 27
Translational Identities and the Émigré Experience	p. 39
Between the Island and the City: Cultural Brokerage in Caribbean-Canadian Short Fiction	p. 59
The Child of New Norcia: Alf Taylor's Poetry	p. 91
The Englishness of Maori Writing	p. 101
The Afrosporic Migration of Genital Alterations to the New Europe: Trauma, the Law, and the Internet	p. 115
Diaspora in the Family: Father and Mother Figures in Canadian Theater	p. 135
Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal's Tourism: How to Exploit Diaspora and Live Happily Ever After	p. 165
Index	p. 179
About the Contributors	p. 181
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