New Routes for Diaspora Studies

Book Details:

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Editors: Sukanya Banerjee, Aims McGuinness, and Steven C. McKay

• Language: English

• Edition: 2014

• ISBN: 9788131606490

• Pages: Not specified

• Cover: Hardcover

• Dimensions: 10.0 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches

About the Book:

New Routes for Diaspora Studies is an insightful exploration of the concept of diaspora, both as a historical experience and a category of analysis. This volume brings together a range of case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas, as well as immigration in the United States, offering fresh perspectives on the ideas of displacement, return, and the place of origin in relation to diasporic identity.

The contributors critically examine how practices of commensality (shared meals) become significant grounds for exploring identity and difference within diasporic communities. Additionally, the book delves into how narrative and aesthetic forms evolve in the context of diaspora, illustrating how cultural expressions in diaspora communities reshape the understanding of home, belonging, and community.

The essays are divided into three parts:

Part 1: Interrogating Terms

• The Middle Passages of Black Migration by Jenny Sharpe

• Making the Exodus from Algeria “European”: Family and Race in 1962 France by Todd Shepard

• Enslaved Lives, Enslaving Labels: A New Approach to the Colonial Indian Labor Diaspora by Crispin Bates and Marina Carter

Part 2: Maps of Intimacy

• Empire, Anglo-India, and the Alimentary Canal by Parama Roy

• Domestic Internationalisms, Imperial Nationalisms: Civil Rights, Immigration, and Conjugal Military Policy by Rachel Ida Buff

Part 3: Nation, Narrative, Diaspora

• Serial Migration: Stories of Home and Belonging in Diaspora by Lok Siu

• Building Associations: Nineteenth-Century Monumental by Martin A. Berger

• Cultural Forms and World Systems: The Ethnic Epic in the New Diaspora by Betty Joseph

This volume provides a critical analysis of the evolving nature of diasporic identities, offering a nuanced understanding of how migration and displacement are shaping new narratives and social formations in the modern world.

About the Editors:
Sukanya Banerjee is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire. Aims McGuinness is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush, 1848–1856. Steven C. McKay is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines.