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Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory
Marianne Hirsch (Ed.)
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Description for Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory
Paperback. Editor(s): Hirsch, Marianne; Miller, Nancy K. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers, historians, literary and cultural critics, anthropologists and sociologists, visual artists, legal scholars, and curators grapple with our contemporary ethical endeavor to redress enduring inequities and retrieve lost histories. Mapping bold and broad-based responses to past injury across Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States, Rites of Return examines new technologies of genetic and genealogical ... Read more
The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers, historians, literary and cultural critics, anthropologists and sociologists, visual artists, legal scholars, and curators grapple with our contemporary ethical endeavor to redress enduring inequities and retrieve lost histories. Mapping bold and broad-based responses to past injury across Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States, Rites of Return examines new technologies of genetic and genealogical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Condition
New
Weight
447g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231150910
SKU
V9780231150910
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About Marianne Hirsch (Ed.)
Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, written with Leo Spitzer, and The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative ... Read more
Reviews for Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory
This broad-ranging collection brings into focus a set of approaches
techno-scientific, personal, and global-that add to the ever-compelling topics of identity, rootedness, mobility, and return. With its fascinating new perspectives, this book demonstrates the importance of memory studies for a better understanding of the future.
Francoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles
techno-scientific, personal, and global-that add to the ever-compelling topics of identity, rootedness, mobility, and return. With its fascinating new perspectives, this book demonstrates the importance of memory studies for a better understanding of the future.
Francoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles