The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader: (Routledge Literature Readers)

The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vital interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of diaspora studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. It also includes seminal essays that have been selected specifically for this collection, as well as one brand new paper. The volume presents: introductions to each section that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary, and theoretical contexts; essays grouped by key subject areas including religion, nation, citizenship, home and belonging, visual culture, and digital diasporas; writings by major figures including Robin Cohen, Homi K. Bhabha, Avtar Brah, Pnina Werbner, Floya Anthias, James Clifford, Paul Gilroy, and Salman Rushdie. The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader is a field-defining volume that presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to diaspora.

Table of Contents:
General introduction by Klaus Stierstorfer and Janet Wilson PART I ORIGINS 1. Terms and conceptions Introduction 1 Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return William Saffran 2 Diasporas James Clifford 3 Four Phases of Diaspora Studies Robin Cohen 2. Religion and diaspora Introduction 4 Religion and diaspora Steven Vertovec 5 Conceptualizing diaspora: the preservation of religious identity in foreign parts, exemplified by Hindu communities outside India Martin Baumann PART II GEOPOLITICS 3. Nation and diaspora Introduction 6 DissemiNation Homi K. Bhabha 7 The ‘diaspora’ diaspora Rogers Brubaker 8 The black Atlantic as counterculture of modernity Paul Gilroy 4. Citizenship and the transglobal Introduction 9 Diasporic citizenship: contradictions and possibilities for Canadian literature Lily Cho 10 Citizenship and identity: living in diaspora in post-war Europe? Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal 11 Introduction to Narratives of Citizenship Aloys N. M. Fleischmann and Nancy van Styvendale 5. (Inter)national policy and diasporaIntroduction 12 Why engage diasporas? Alan Gamlen 13 Migration, information technology, and international policy Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff 14 International migration as a tool in development policy: a passing phase? Ronald Skeldon PART III IDENTITIES 6. Subjectivity Introduction 15 The turn to diaspora Lily Cho 16 Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position Dibyesh Anand 17 Diasporic subjectivities Colin Davis 7. Hybridity and cultural identity Introduction 18 The third space: interview with Homi Bhabha Jonathean Rutherford 19 New hybridities, old concepts: the limits of ‘culture’ Floya Anthias 20 Hybridity John Hutnyk 21 The limits of cultural hybridity: on ritual monsters, poetic license and contested postcolonial purifications Pnina Werbner 8. IntersectionalityIntroduction 22 Evaluating ‘diaspora’: beyond ethnicity? Floya Anthias 23 Multiple axes of power: articulations of diaspora and intersectionality Avtar Brah 24 Impossible desires: queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures Gaytari Gopinath 25 Why queer diaspora? Meg Wesling IV CULTURAL PRODUCTION 9. Diaspora literature Introduction 26 Romance, diaspora and black Atlantic literature Yogita Goyal 27 The postcolonial novel and diaspora Yoon Sun Lee 10. Diaspora and visual cultureIntroduction 28 Diaspora culture and the dialogic imagination: the aesthetics of black independent film in Britain Kobena Mercer 29 Situating accented cinema Hamid Naficy 30 Speaking in tongues: Ang Lee, accented cinema, Hollywood Song Hwee Lim V COMMUNITY 11. Home and belonging Introduction 31 Imaginary homelands Salman Rushdie 32 Being not-at-home: a conceptual discussion Jane Mummery 33 Cartographies of diaspora Avtar Brah 34 Solid liquid and ductile: changing notions of homeland and home in diaspora studies Robin Cohen 12. Digital diasporas Introduction 35 The immigrant worlds’ digital harbors: an introduction Andoni Alonso and Pedro J. Oiarzabal 36 Internet, place and public sphere in diaspora communities Angel Adams Parham 37 Nations, migration, and the world wide web of politics Victoria Bernal

About the Author :
Klaus Stierstorfer is Chair of British Studies at the University of Muenster, Germany. Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies and Director of Research in the School of the Arts at the University of Northampton, UK.