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  1. Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»
    Author: Zamora, Maria C.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., New York ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant... more

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    One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality offers a wide array of narratives that complicate the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism and the related discourses of «hybridity». Many such narratives are under-theorized migrations, such as Dalit narratives from India and inter-island migrations in the Caribbean. Collectively, the essays suggest that there are ways in which the forms of the migrant aesthetics, language, and imaginaries may offer new insights in the interactions between practices and discourses of hybridity and cosmopolitanism by examining their precise points of intersection and divergence. This inquiry is especially timely because it raises questions about the circulation, marketing, and consumption of narratives of migration, dislocation, and «diaspora.» In addition, the collection addresses in at least two significant ways the question about «beyond postcolonialism» and the future of the discipline. First, by questioning and critically examining some foundational theories in postcolonialism, it points to possible new directions in our theoretical vocabulary. Second, it offers an array of reflections around disparate geographies that are, equally importantly, written in different languages. The value that the authors place on languages other than English and their choice to focus on the effect that multiple languages have on the present of postcolonial studies are in line with one of the aims of the collection – to make the case for a multilingual expansion of the postcolonial imaginary as a necessary imperative.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Menon, Nirmala; Preziuso, Marika
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453911044
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    DDC Categories: 800
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Postcolonial Studies ; 18
    Subjects: Postkolonialismus <Motiv>; Kulturkontakt <Motiv>; Migrantenliteratur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»
    Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality
    Contributor: Zamora, Maria C. (Publisher); Menon, Nirmala (Publisher); Preziuso, Marika (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Zamora, Maria C. (Publisher); Menon, Nirmala (Publisher); Preziuso, Marika (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781453911044
    Other identifier:
    9781453911044
    RVK Categories: EC 1878 ; LC 80615
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: Kulturkontakt <Motiv>; Migrantenliteratur; Postkolonialismus <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)
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    One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality offers a wide array of narratives that complicate the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism and the related discourses of «hybridity». Many such narratives are under-theorized migrations, such as Dalit narratives from India and inter-island migrations in the Caribbean. Collectively, the essays suggest that there are ways in which the forms of the migrant aesthetics, language, and imaginaries may offer new insights in the interactions between practices and discourses of hybridity and cosmopolitanism by examining their precise points of intersection and divergence. This inquiry is especially timely because it raises questions about the circulation, marketing, and consumption of narratives of migration, dislocation, and «diaspora.» In addition, the collection addresses in at least two significant ways the question about «beyond postcolonialism» and the future of the discipline. First, by questioning and critically examining some foundational theories in postcolonialism, it points to possible new directions in our theoretical vocabulary. Second, it offers an array of reflections around disparate geographies that are, equally importantly, written in different languages. The value that the authors place on languages other than English and their choice to focus on the effect that multiple languages have on the present of postcolonial studies are in line with one of the aims of the collection - to make the case for a multilingual expansion of the postcolonial imaginary as a necessary imperative