Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered

by Marcus Bullock (Editor), Peter Y. Paik (Editor)

Overview

Aftermaths is a collection of essays offering compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora that have emerged in the global age. The ten contributors—well-established scholars and promising new voices—work in different disciplines and draw from diverse backgrounds as they present rich case studies from around the world. In seeking fresh perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, the essays included here look to the power of the aesthetic experience, especially in literature and film, to unsettle existing theoretical paradigms and enable the rethinking of conventionalized approaches.

Marcus Bullock and Peter Y. Paik, in bringing this collection together, show we have reached a moment in history when it is imperative to question prevailing intellectual models. The interconnectedness of the world's economies, the contributors argue, can exacerbate existing antagonisms or create new ones. With essays by Ihab Hassan, Paul Brodwin, and Helen Fehervary, among others, Aftermaths engages not only with important academic topics but also with the leading political issues of the day.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813544069
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	11/20/2008
Series:	New Directions in International Studies
Edition description:	None ed.
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Marcus Bullock is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Romanticism and Marxism and The Violent Eye, and coeditor of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings vol. I: 1913-1926.

Peter Y. Paik is an assistant professor in the department of French, Italian, and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION / Peter Y. Paik
I EXILE AS ORIGIN
     TALES OF MIGRATION FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND CENTRAL EUROPE / Helen Fehervary
     WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND
          THE IRISH LANDSCAPE AFTER EMIGRATION Andrew Kincaid
II THE SPIRITUALITY OF EXILE
     THE DIALECTIC OF MARGINALITY IN THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY OF GUADELOUPE, FRENCH WEST INDIES / Paul Brodwin
     ON THE METAPHYSICS OF EXILE / Stefan Rossbach
III DIASPORAS AND THE REINVENTION OF THE LOCAL
     PAYS R V , PAYS R EL CR OLIT AND ITS DIASPORAS / Natalie Melas
     CRITICISM, EXILE, IRELAND / Conor McCarthy
     EDWIDGE DANTICAT'S LATINIDAD 
          THE FARMING OF BONES AND THE CULTIVATION (OF FIELDS) OF KNOWLEDGE / Ricardo Ortiz
IV MIGRANT FANTASIES
     THE GREAT MIGRATION ELSEWHERE / Zoran Samardzija
     BENDING IT LIKE BECKHAM
          SEX, SOCCER, AND TRAVELING INDIANS / K.E. Supriya
     COMING TO THE ANTIPODES
          MIGRANCY, TRAVEL, HOMECOMING / Ihab Hassan
AFTERWORD THE DIALECTICS OF IDENTITY / Marcus Bullock
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

Editorial Reviews

A volume that is at once sophisticated and readable, pushing at the boundaries of common conclusions about globalization, immigration, and diaspora.

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Caroline Levine