Return Narratives

Author : Theodora D. Patrona
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611479959

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Return Narratives by Theodora D. Patrona Pdf

This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of the authors' return, either metaphorical or literal to the country of origin and its culture, Return Narratives explores the common motifs of mythology, ritual, and storytelling where the third generation writers resort to in their quest for self-definition. With a common historical and cultural background in the old neighboring countries, Greece and Italy, and a similar reception in the new world facilitating a comparative approach, the ethnic writers of the two literatures, clearly envisage ethnic space as a site of resilience and empowerment.

Author : Michela Baldo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137477330

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Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return by Michela Baldo Pdf

This book examines the concept of translation as a return to origins and as restitution of lost narratives, and is based on the idea of diaspora as a term that depicts the longing to return home and the imaginary reconstructions and reconstitutions of home by migrants and translators. The author analyses a corpus made up of novels and a memoir by Italian-Canadian writers Mary Melfi, Nino Ricci and Frank Paci, examining the theme of return both within the writing itself and also in the discourse surrounding the translations of these works into Italian. These ‘reconstructions’ are analysed through the lens of translation, and more specifically through the notion of written code-switching, understood here as a fictional tool which symbolizes the translational movements between different points of view. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, migration studies, and Italian and diasporic writing.

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351503860

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Narratives of Exile and Return by Mary Chamberlain Pdf

In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and history of Barbados. But it does more by providing post-modern theorizing with concrete national and ethnic settings.

Author : Hans J. Ladegaard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000922868

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Migrant Workers’ Narratives of Return by Hans J. Ladegaard Pdf

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers’ experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved ones. The narratives deal with two major themes: 1) Migrant workers’ experiences in the diaspora, which for many, particularly Indonesian workers, were associated with abuse and exploitation leading to trauma; and 2) migrant workers’ experiences of coming home, which include both the happy reunion with the family but also concerns about not ‘fitting in’ and the need to reinvent themselves because they are not who they were when they left. This is particularly true for workers whose migratory journeys have failed and who have come back to their hometowns without any financial award. Chapters also explore the major difference between Filipina and Indonesian migrant workers’ overseas experiences. The Filipina returnees share mostly positive stories while the Indonesian returnees uncover mostly negative stories, further illuminating what may explain these diverse migratory experiences. Finally, the book discusses how research on disenfranchised groups like (domestic) migrant workers can be used for social and political action. An excellent text that will appeal to academics, teachers and postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, anthropology, and migration studies.

Author : Iraida H. Lopez
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813063430

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Impossible Returns by Iraida H. Lopez Pdf

In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical or vicarious experience by means of fictional characters or childhood reminiscences. As two-way migration increases in the post-Cold War period, many of these narratives put to the test the boundaries of national identity. Through a critical reading of works by Cuban American artists and writers like María Brito, Ruth Behar, Carlos Eire, Cristina García, Ana Mendieta, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Ernesto Pujol, Achy Obejas, and Ana Menéndez, López highlights the affective ties as well as the tensions underlying the relationship between returning subjects and their native country. Impossible Returns also looks at how Cubans still living on the island depict returning émigrés in their own narratives, addressing works by Jesús Díaz, Humberto Solás, Carlos Acosta, Nancy Alonso, Leonardo Padura, and others. Blurring the lines between disciplines and geographic borders, this book underscores the centrality of Cuba for its diaspora and bears implications for other countries with widespread populations in exile.

Author : Christopher T. Fan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231559782

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Asian American Fiction After 1965 by Christopher T. Fan Pdf

After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation’s children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers’ works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers’ attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.”

Author : Zainab Saleh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503614123

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Return to Ruin by Zainab Saleh Pdf

This volume of exiles’ accounts “[uses] the stories as springboards to discussing Iraqi history, politicization, and diasporic experiences in depth” (International Journal of Middle East Studies). With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba’th coup and support of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation. Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi’i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.

Author : Antonio Lopez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814765494

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Unbecoming Blackness by Antonio Lopez Pdf

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.

Author : Susan Zeelander
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004218222

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Closure in Biblical Narrative by Susan Zeelander Pdf

Multiple and sometimes unexpected forms of closure in biblical narratives bring their stories to satisfactory close. Knowledge of these conventions and how they affect their stories is valuable to students of Bible and of narrative.

Author : David N. Coury
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114331924

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The Return of Storytelling in Contemporary German Literature and Film by David N. Coury Pdf

German literature and film have kept to the true path all this time, according to Coury's (German and humanistic studies, U. of Wisconsin-Green Bay) construction, and it is storytelling that went wayward for a while but is now returning home. He begins by discussing the origins and definitions of the art of storytelling, and looking at contemporary

Author : Jarrod Hayes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053162

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Queer Roots for the Diaspora by Jarrod Hayes Pdf

Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity

Author : Robert Dale Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z224414908

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Footfalls on the boundary of another World. With narrative illustrations. From the tenth American edition, with emendations and additions by the author by Robert Dale Owen Pdf

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004362019

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Narratives of Exile and Return by Mary Chamberlain Pdf

This text explores the nature and meanings of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is an oral and social history based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate of modernity, this text highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and history of Barbados. It investigates the power of social and individual memory in recalling and recounting experience and in shaping and interpreting culture. It reveals the vitality of family dynamics and values in shaping life courses and the ways in which these are transmitted and transformed across generations. It analyzes how the Mother Country was encountered and incorporated, and how the continuing presence of the Caribbean shapes identities of those born or brought up in Britain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555009663

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The Methodist visitor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anastasia Christou
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789053568781

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Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity by Anastasia Christou Pdf

Annotation. Christou explores the phenomenon of 'return migration' in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The concepts of 'home' and 'belonging' figure prominently in the return migratory project which entails relocation and displacement as well as adjustment and alienation of bodies and selves. Furthermore, Christou considers the multiple interactions (social, cultural, political) between the place of origin and the place of destination; network ties; historical and global forces in the shaping of return migrant behaviour; and expressions of identity. The human geography of return migration extends beyond geographic movement into a diasporic journey involving (re)constructions of homeness and belongingness in the ancestral homeland. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789053568781. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.