Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered (New Directions in International Studies)

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Author(s): Marcus P. Bullock, Peter Y. Paik
Year: 2008

Language: English
Pages: 267

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Exile as Origin......Page 26
Tales of Migration from Central America and Central Europe......Page 28
What They Left Behind: The Irish Landscape after Emigration......Page 46
Part II: The Spirituality of Exile......Page 66
The Dialectic of Marginality in the Haitian Community of Guadeloupe, French West Indies......Page 68
On the Metaphysics of Exile......Page 89
Part III: Diasporas and the Reinvention of the Local......Page 114
Pays Reve, Pays Reel: Creolite and Its Diasporas......Page 116
Criticism, Exile, Ireland......Page 146
Edwidge Danticat's Latinidad: The Farming of Bones and the Cultivation (of Fields) of Knowledge......Page 163
Part IV: Migrant Fantasies......Page 186
The Great Migration Elsewhere......Page 188
Bending It Like Beckham: Sex, Soccer, and Traveling Indians......Page 205
Coming to the Antipodes: Migrancy, Travel, Homecoming......Page 223
Afteword: The Dialectics of Identity......Page 236
Notes on Contributors......Page 256
Index......Page 260