Discourses of Identity in Liminal Places and Spaces [Hardcover]

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine linguistic and social phenomena in places shaped by displacement and social inequality. The book also looks at chronotopes, the Bakhtinian-inspired concept of the interconnectedness of time and space in identity. The volume demonstrates how studying liminal places and spaces can offer unique insights into how people construct language and selfhood in these spaces, making this key reading for researchers in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, geography, and linguistic anthropology.

Introduction

1. Chronotopic Identities: The South in the Narratives Told by Members of Mapuche Communities in Chile

2. A Desire for Place: Constructing the Portuguese Homeland before and after return

3. Para m? no hay m?s que Par?s y mi pueblo : Place and Personhood in Processes of Social Distinction

4. A Space of Your Own: Transforming Roma Heritage Practices and Identity in Contexts of Economic and social Precarity

5. With or Without Zanzibar: Diaspora Voices and the Memory of the Revolution