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Special Focus – Symbols of Diaspora
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FrontmatterForeword from the EditorsContentsIntroduction: Symbols of Diaspora
/ Kläger, Florian
Tied to the Land: A Semiotic Challenging of Terms Concerning Land as Used in Diaspora Discourse
/ Wattenbarger, Melanie R.
Diasporic Memory and Narratives of Spatiotemporality
/ Drnovšek Zorko, Špela
Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Political Aesthetics of Diasporic Social Spaces in London
/ Swaby, Nydia A.
The Symbolism of Emplacement and Displacement in Sudanese British Fiction by Tayeb Salih and Leila Aboulela
/ Windt, Leonie
Ain’t I a Woman? A Mother? A Nation? ‘Woman’ and ‘Nation’ in Pre- and Post- Independence India
/ Rascanu, Iulia
Christmas in the Diaspora: Dislocating Symbols in Kipling, Cary and Dabydeen
/ Knor, Sarah
Two Stone Lions: Law, Home, and Diasporic Sovereignty
/ Patchett, Emma
Oddity Magnified: In Search of Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans
/ Quabeck, Franziska
Writing Her Own Story: Acculturation, Metatextuality and Symbolizing Queerness in Shamim Sarif’s I Can’t Think Straight
/ Morgan, Holly
‘A Bootless Inquisition?’ Searching for Imaginary Homelands in The Tempest
/ Tronicke, Marlena
Discourses of Terror in French and Spanish Novels after 9/11
/ Hennigfeld, Ursula
William Earle’s Novella: Obi, Obeah and the Ideological Work of Haunting
/ Sandiford, Keith
A Great Good Place or Ghastly Pile? Representations of the English Country House in Recent British Fiction: Metamorphosis of a Literary Motif
/ Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara
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Beschreibung:
Main description: Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbolic practices from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora.
Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbolic practices from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora.