Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader by Braziel, Jana Evans

Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631233916)

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Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader by Braziel, Jana Evans

Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader

$180.95
Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader by Braziel, Jana Evans

Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader

$180.95
Format: Hardcover
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Bringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space.

  • Anthologizes the most influential and critically received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies.
  • Offers classic statements that have defined the field by scholars including Appadurai, Gilroy, Radhakrishnan, and Hall.
  • Presents divergent strains of multiple diasporas, including Chinese, Black African, Jewish, South Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean.
  • Reflects the modalities and methodologies of scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
  • Includes a postscript on diaspora in cyberspace and an extensive bibliography.


Author: Jana Evans Braziel
ISBN-10: 0631233911
ISBN-13: 9780631233916
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2003
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.32w x 1.27d
By Jana Evans Braziel
By Jana Evans Braziel
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Jana Evans Braziel is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. In 2002-3 she was Five College Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College. She has written widely on diaspora and cultural studies, and is the editor of Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (with Kathleen LeBesco, 2001).

Anita Mannur is a postdoctoral fellow in Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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