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. This edited collection breaks new ground within the field of postcolonial diaspora studies, moving beyond the predominantly Anglophone bias of much existing scholarship by investigating comparative links between a range of Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Neerlandophone cultural contexts. Ranging across the disciplines of history, sociology, literary analysis, cultural studies and the visual arts, the collection examines both the contributions and limitations of existing postcolonial diaspora scholarship, as well as developing new cross-disciplinary theoretical paradigms. Exploring a variety of geographical locations including Europe, the Americas, the Pacific and the Middle East, the collection is divided into three main sections: 'Discovering Europe' (with essays by John McLeod, Elleke Boehmer and Frances Gouda, and Siobhǹ Shilton); 'Nostalgia and the Longing for Home' (featuring Patrick Williams, Patria Romǹ-Velz̀quez and Janet Wilson); and 'Comparative Diasporic Contexts' (with contributions from Celia Britton, Mohit Prasad and Bill Marshall), concluding with a postscript by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden--Résumé de l'éditeur "This edited collection breaks new ground within the field of postcolonial diaspora studies, moving beyond the predominantly Anglophone bias of much existing scholarship by investigating comparative links between a range of Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Neerlandophone cultural contexts. Ranging across the disciplines of history, sociology, literary analysis, cultural studies and the visual arts, the collection examines both the contributions and limitations of existing postcolonial diaspora scholarship, as well as developing new cross-disciplinary theoretical paradigms. Exploring a variety of geographical locations including Europe, the Americas, the Pacific and the Middle East, the collection is divided into three main sections: 'Discovering Europe' (with essays by John McLeod, Elleke Boehmer and Frances Gouda, and Siobhan Shilton); 'Nostalgia and the Longing for Home' (featuring Patrick Williams, Patria Roman-Velazquez and Janet Wilson); and 'Comparative Diasporic Contexts' (with contributions from Celia Britton, Mohit Prasad and Bill Marshall), concluding with a postscript by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden."--Jacket Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 European Tribes: Transcultural Diasporic Encounters....Pages 19-36 Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the ‘Diasporic’ Netherlands....Pages 37-55 Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Art: Gender, Genre and History....Pages 56-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 ‘Naturally, I reject the term “diaspora”’: Said and Palestinian Dispossession....Pages 83-103 Latin Americans in London and the Dynamics of Diasporic Identities....Pages 104-124 Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland: The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia....Pages 125-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Exile, Incarceration and the Homeland: Jewish References in French Caribbean Novels....Pages 149-167 Vijay Singh’s Indo-Fijian Work Ethic: The Politics of Diasporic Definitions....Pages 168-188 French Atlantic Diasporas....Pages 189-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Postcolonial Transplants: Cinema, Diaspora and the Body Politic....Pages 211-227 Back Matter....Pages 228-230
