Diaspora end exile
Editorial UNIV. CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
Festland Spanien
- Verlag UNIV. CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
- ISBN13 9788484271246
- ISBN10 8484271242
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 256
- Sammlung Estudios
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2001
- Sprache Kastilisch
- Bindung Gebunden
Diaspora end exile
Editorial UNIV. CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
The different contributions of this body of work attemp to demonstrate that the concept of diaspora (exile) has acquired a renewed currency among scholars by examining that to be in exile, at least in some way, is to live a disjoint life. Thus, to live in exileor diaspora implies to take up the difficult task of kee-ping one`s dignity and one¿s story, despite the on slaught of a colonial power. The relationship with a past, often through stories of the mother/land or through remembrance and (re)creation, becomes a means of survival. Futhermore, the sense (or absence) of community, and the positioning in language generate an ever more complex and dialogic definition of Canadian and American nationalities and identities.