Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas

Bringing together a group of intellectuals from a number of disciplines, this collection breaks new ground within the field of postcolonial diaspora studies, moving beyond the Anglophone bias of much existing scholarship by investigating comparative links between a range of Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Neerlandophone cultural contexts.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas; M.Keown, D.Murphy & J.Procter PART ONE: DISCOVERING EUROPE European Tribes: Transnational Diasporic Encounters; J.McLeod Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the ''Diasporic'' Netherlands; E.Boehmer & F.Gouda Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Art: Gender, Genre and History; S.Shilton PART TWO: NOSTALGIA AND LONGING FOR ''HOME'' ''Naturally, I reject the term "diaspora"'': Said and Palestinian Dispossession; P.Williams Latin Americans in London and the Dynamics of Diasporic Identities; P.Roman-Velasquez Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland: The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia; J.Wilson PART THREE: COMPARATIVE DIASPORIC CONTEXTS Exile, Incarceration and the Homeland: Jewish References in French Caribbean Novels; C.Britton Vijay Singh''s Indo-Fijian Work Ethic: The Politics of Diasporic Definitions; M.Prasad French Atlantic Diasporas; B.Marshall Postscript: Postcolonial Transplants: Cinema, Diaspora, and the Body Politic; E.Ezra & T.Rowden Index