Rites of return : diaspora poetics and the politics of memory / edited by Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2011. - xiii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Gender and culture . - Gender and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The factness of diaspora: the social sources of genetic genealogy / Alondra Nelson -- Jews, lost and found: genetic history and the evidentiary terrain of recognition / Nadia Abu El-Haj -- The web and the reunion: http://czernowitz.ehpes.com / Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer -- Queering roots, queering diaspora / Jarrod Hayes -- Indigenous Australian arts of return: mediating perverse archives / Rosanne Kennedy -- Memoirs of return / Saidiya Hartman ... [et al.] -- Return to half-ruins: fathers and daughters, memory and history in Palestine / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Singing with the taxi driver: from Bollywood to Babylon / Jay Prosser -- Off-modern homecoming in art and theory / Svetlana Boym -- Return to Nicaragua: the aftermath of hope / Susan Meiselas -- Between two returns / Amira Hass -- Adoption and return: transnational genealogies, maternal legacies / Margaret Homans -- Foreign correspondence / Sonali Thakkar -- "O give me a home" / Patricia J. Williams ; Images from New Orleans / Keith Calhoun, Chandra Mccormick -- The politics of return: when rights become rites / Elazar Barkan -- Sites of conscience: lighting up dark tourism / Liz Ševčenko -- Kishinev redux: pogrom, purim, patrimony / Nancy K. Miller -- Trauma as durational performance: a return to dark sites / Diana Taylor -- Pilgrimages, reenactment, and souvenirs: modes of memory tourism / Marita Sturken.

9780231150903 (cloth : acidfree paper) 9780231150910 (pbk. : acidfree paper)

2011010557

015855517 Uk


Return in literature.
Feminist literary criticism.
Collective memory and literature.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Poetics.

PN56.R475 / R58 2011

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