Displacements

by Bammer, Angelika

• ISBN13: 9780253208972
• ISBN10: 0253208971
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Cultural displacement -- physical dislocation from one's native culture or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture -- is one of the most formative experiences of our century. These essays examine the impact of this experience on contemporary notions of cultural identity from the perspectives of anthropology, history, philosophy, literature, and psychology.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Dog Words
Interrupted Journeys: The Cultural Politics of Indian Reburial	p. 3
Faceless Tongues: Language and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America	p. 25
The Imam and the Indian	p. 47
On Language Memoir	p. 59
Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood	p. 71
Mother Tongues and Other Strangers: Writing "Family" across Cultural Divides	p. 90
Double Articulation: A Place in the World	p. 110
Where Have All the Natives Gone?	p. 125
Year of the Ram: Honolulu, Feb. 2, 1991	p. 152
Memories of Empire	p. 156
An Incomplete Replacing: The White South African Expatriate	p. 172
Ecriture judaique: Where Are the Jews in Western Discourse?	p. 182
A "Mischling" Attempts to Fight for His Rights	p. 205
Sheltering Battered Bodies in Language: Imprisonment Once More?	p. 216
"Coming Home" on the Fourth of July: Constructing Immigrant Identities	p. 233
A Not-So-New Spelling of My Name: Notes toward (and against) a Politics of Equivocation	p. 251
Afterwords	p. 267
Frontlines/Borderposts	p. 269
Aller a la ligne	p. 273
Notes on Contributors	p. 275
Index	p. 279
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