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Vagabonds, tramps, and hobos : the literature and culture of U.S. transiency 1890-1940
\"This book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. It explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It provides new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Proletarian and gendered mass migrations : a global perspective on continuities and discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st centuries
Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations connects the 19th- proletarian and the 20th-and 21st-century domestics and caregiver labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It integrates male and female migrations and employs a systems approach with human agency perspectives.
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Leaving the South : border crossing narratives and the remaking of Southern identity
\"Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because the movements of southerners--and people in general--are controlled not only by physical boundaries marked on a map but also by narratives that define movement, narrative is central in building and sustaining borders and in breaking them down. In Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity, author Mary Weaks-Baxter analyzes narratives by and about those who left the South and how those narratives have remade what it means to be southern. Drawing from a broad range of narratives, including literature, newspaper articles, art, and music, Weaks-Baxter outlines how these displacement narratives challenged concepts of southern nationhood and redefined southern identity. Close attention is paid to how depictions of the South, particularly in the media and popular culture, prompted southerners to leave the region and changed perceptions of southerners to outsiders as well as how southerners saw themselves. Through an examination of narrative, Weaks-Baxter reveals the profound effect gender, race, and class have on the nature of the migrant's journey, the adjustment of the migrant, and the ultimate decision of the migrant either to stay put or return home, and connects the history of border crossings to the issues being considered in today's national landscape.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Local Histories-Global Designs
Local Histories/Global Designsis an extended argument about the \"coloniality\" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of \"colonial difference\" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which he calls \"border thinking.\" Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. His concept of \"border gnosis,\" or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding.
In a new preface that discussesLocal Histories/Global Designsas a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History, Mignolo connects his argument with the unfolding of history in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing
Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity.
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A Sociology of Failure: Migration and Narrative Method in US Climate Fiction
This paper identifies what it terms a sociology of failure at work in American climate fiction novels dealing with the subject of climate-induced migration within the United States. Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife and Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus exemplify this trend inasmuch as their accounts of future climate migrants derive from outdated migrant typologies. Drawing from C. Wright Mills’s Sociological Imagination and Kim Stanley Robinson’s “ease of representation,” this essay argues such cases call attention to the imaginative failure that characterizes public understandings of climate migration in particular. Ultimately, this account identifies the sociological methods within cli-fi that mark imaginative failure as a problem both in-text and for readers of these texts.
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Zwischen Innerer Emigration und Exil: Deutschsprachige Schriftsteller 1933-1945
Der Band sucht die bisher traditionell getrennten Forschungsgebiete 'Exilliteratur' und 'Innere Emigration' einander anzunähern und die verschiedenen Erfahrungsfelder der vertriebenen und der in Deutschland gebliebenen Schriftsteller aufeinander zu beziehen. Erörtert wird das Widerstandspotential der deutschsprachigen Literatur innerhalb und außerhalb des Deutschen Reiches und die Aussagekraft der Bezeichnungen 'innere?' und 'äußere' Emigration.
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Identities on the Go: Homelands And Languages In Balkan And Turkish–Cypriot Literature
The present study focuses on tracing the depictions of the poetic subject in the light of lost homelands, linguistic foreignness and multilingualism, in poems about “political ethics”, which all too clearly converse with history—narratives that highlight the geographically and linguistically homeless poetic subject, in poems which are always written under the weight of a specific historical event, in other words articulated “under the heavy footsteps of history”. The transition from stability to instability, the feeling of physical and psychological loss through geographical and cultural change is vividly reflected in both Balkan and Turkish-Cypriot literature. In the present study, poems by Balkan poets are examined alongside poems by Turkish-Cypriot poet Mehmet Yaşin. Despite the self-evident cultural differences between Balkan and Turkish-Cypriot literature, there exist factors that warrant their co-examination; common narrative structures and similar themes—at least in part—require that they be systematically read together. The common historical past and the burden of memory—the construction or reconstruction through these texts of a collective point of reference and the transfer to common memorial sites; internal migration; the survival of common oral forms of poetry; divergent or ‘heretical’ writings; linguistic transitions; the processing of transitional identities: these are just some of the most obvious points of convergence. Balkan poems constitute a distinct category and, as will be shown below, are linked to Turkish-Cypriot ones primarily through their ideology. Some of the themes that persistently recur in Balkan poets’ and Yaşin’s work are: lost homelands, the reception of alterity, internal migration, shattered identities, the thematisation of orality and multilingualism. Yaşin’s poetry registers the multiple transitions of language and the coexistence of foreign languages, while also making use of the Karamanlidika dialect
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Zwischen Innerer Emigration und Exil
Der Band sucht die bisher traditionell getrennten Forschungsgebiete ,Exilliteratur' und ,Innere Emigration' einander anzunähern und die verschiedenen Erfahrungsfelder der vertriebenen und der in Deutschland gebliebenen Schriftsteller aufeinander zu beziehen.
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