New Directions in Diaspora Studies: Cultural and Literary Approaches [Paperback]

This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The innovation of this volume lies in the interplay of both texts and theoretical insights from these different areas of cultural analysis, drawn together to probe diverse manifestations of diaspora while pointing out new directions of critique. Moving between representations of real and imaginary, violent and utopian, past, present and future diasporas, contributors demonstrate the ways in which authors, performers and artists are establishing new modes of representing and imagining diaspora in an increasingly globalised age. Contributions are organised into sections on performance, speculative fiction, city spaces, affective or violent diasporas, and silence and voice. Bringing together these wide-ranging histories, contexts and media allows for dialogue across vastly divergent experiences and representations of diaspora, and opens up a theoretical debate on the changing nature of this field of study.

Sarah Ilott is a Lecturer in English and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Ana Cristina Mendes is an Assistant Professor in English Studies at the University of Lisbon.

Lucinda Newns is a Lecturer in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Queen Mary University of London.

Ilott, Mendes, and Newnss edited volume will prove to be highly useful for researchers and students of both diaspora studies and postcolonial literature and arts and merits a high recommendation as an addition to library collections of diaspora as well as literary and cultural studies. Hungarian Journal Of English and American Studies

Unquestionably, New Directions in Diaspora Studies offers a powerful intervention to Diaspora Studies and to Postcolonial StudilS8