Literature on the Move

Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. Edited by Dominique Marçais, Mark Niemeyer, Bernard Vincent and Cathy Waegner.

This volume dates back to the second MELUS Europe conference, which took place at the University of Orléans, France, from 21 to 25 June 2000. It investigates the creativity emerging from the ruptures, unforeseen intersections, and new fusions of transmigration. The cultural bifocality of its 29 essays provides insights into this creativity of a score of uprooted ethnicities. The chapters, including 'Constructing the Ethnic', 'Negotiating Identity', 'Remembering and Forgetting in the Diaspora', 'Performing Ethnicity', 'Hybridizing the Ethnic Text', 'Contesting Oppression and (Post)Colonialism', 'Correcting Political Correctness', reflect concerns of ethnic studies in the twenty-first century. The reader of is invited to join the quest for imagined spaces and multicultural consciousness in Europe, the Americas, and inbetween. XIV,360 Seiten, gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 97/Universitätsverlag Winter 2002)