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