Theorizing Diaspora
A Reader
KeyWorks in Cultural Studies
1. Edition January 2003
356 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points Of Contention In
Diaspora Studies. (Jana Evans Braziel And Anita Mannur).
Part I: Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora.
1. Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy.
(Arjun Appadurai).
2. The Black Atlantic As A Counterculture Of Modernity. (Paul
Gilroy).
Additional Readings On Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora.
Part II: Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora.
3. Diaspora: Generational Ground Of Jewish Diaspora. (Daniel
Boyarin And Jonathan Boyarin).
4. Ethnicity In An Age Of Diaspora. (R. Radhakrishnan).
5. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American
Differences. (Lisa Lowe).
Additional Readings On Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora.
Part III: Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora.
6. Against The Lures Of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese
Women And Intellectual Hegemony. (Rey Chow).
7. Returning(S): Relocating The Critical Feminist
Auto-Ethnographer. (Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe).
8. In The Shadows Of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational
Politics And The Diasporic Dilemma. (Martin F. Manalansan IV).
Additional Readings In Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora.
Part IV: Cultural Production And Diaspora.
9. Cultural Identity And Diaspora Stuart Hall.
10. Diaspora Culture And The Dialogic Imagination. (Kobena
Mercer).
11. Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities In
Motion. (Gayatri Gopinath).
Additional Readings On Cultural Production And Diaspora.
Post-Script: Cyber-Scapes And The Interfacing Of Diaspora.
(Anita Mannur).
Additional Readings On Diaspora And Cyberelectronics.
Selected Bibliography of Works on Diaspora (Anita Mannur).
Index.
contemporary discussions of migration and identity. Bringing
together key essays in the field, this superb collection offers us
a comprehensive overview of diaspora's past politics and potential
futures. Above all, it reminds us that diaspora is a distinctly
human phenomenon, involving the displacement, movement, and
separation of peoples." David L. Eng, Columbia University
"Theorizing Diaspora speaks not only to those previously
colonized and oppressed Others who have relocated from There to
Here, but discusses why deracination is a process that affects all
constituencies: those in the newly inhabited metropolis as well as
those who remain behind." Grant Farred, Duke University
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.
