Full Description
This book focuses on one of the main issues of our time in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it analyzes the impact of current global migrations on new forms of living together and the formation of identities and homes. Using a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach the contributions shed fresh light upon key concepts such as 'hybrid-performative diaspora', 'transidentities',' hospitality', 'belonging', 'emotion', 'body,' and 'desire'. Those concepts are discussed in the context of Cuban, US-American, Maghrebian, Moroccan, Spanish, Catalan, French, Turkish, Jewish, Argentinian, Indian, and Italian literatures, cultures and religions.
Contents
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
1 Nomadic Places Cultures and Literatures in Movement 'Hybrid-Performative Diasporas' in the Ibero-American-Maghrebian-Morrocan Literature and Culture: the Case of Najat El Hachmi
Alfonso de Toro
2 The Diasporic Identity of the Roma People
Marta Segarra
3 Epistemological Difficulties in the Development of Civic Identities in Western Education
Zvi Bekerman
4 A Discourse of Resistance: Hybridization of Identity and Textuality in Tedio, by Natalio Ohanna
Daniel Blaustein
5 Federalism and Diaspora: The Feeling of Belonging and the Diaspora Identity in the Subnational Level of the Country
Mauricio Dimant
6 Jewbans in Miami. A Particular Case of Hybrid-Performative Diaspora
Sarah Moldenhauer
7 The "Good Migrants": Issues of Hospitality and Belonging with regard to Sikhs in Mediterranean Europe
Pierre Gottschlich
8 Feelings of Threat as a Problem of Religious Identity within Religiously Diverse Societies
Gert Pickel and Alexander Yendell
9 The Problem of Belonging in Nina Bouraoui's Garçon manqué
Annegret Richter
10 Diasporic Topographies of Remembrance in New Autobiographical Sephardic Writing
Susanne Ritschel
11 Settling In: Migration and Place in Sema Kiliçkaya's Le royaume sans racines
Annedith Schneider
12 Identity Questions in El diablo de Yudis by Ahmed Daoudi
Juliane Tauchnitz
13 Writing in Movement: A Poetics of Undecidability?
Abderrahman Tenkoul
14 The Berber Cultural Movement in the Maghreb Contemporary Issues in Transnationalism
Moha Ennaji
15 The Mara: A Diaspora Sui Generis?
Heidrun Zinecker
16 Towards Modes of Shared Emotion: Revisiting the Iberian Diasporas' Trauma Through the "Captive's tale" (Don Quixote I, 37-41)
Ruth Fine
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