Diaspora Criticism

Sudesh MISHRA, Diaspora Criticism, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 200 p.ISBN 978 0 7486 2105 7

SUMMARY

The first introduction to the field of Diaspora criticism that serves both as a timely guide and a rigorous critique.

Diaspora criticism takes the concept ‘diaspora’ as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also offers an alternative to Postcolonial Studies. This book is the first to provide an accessible overview of the critical trends in Diaspora criticism and to critically evaluate the major Diaspora critics and their models, with the aim of adding to the debate on methodology.

This authoritative account will be of interest to those working in Diaspora Studies and its related fields of History, Literature, Art, Sociology, Population and Migration Studies, Politics, and Ethnic and Postcolonial Studies.

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1 Prologue to a Generic Event

Chapter 2 The Scene of Dual Territoriality

Chapter 3 The Scene of Situational Laterality

Chapter 4 The Scene of Archival Specificity

Chapter 5 The Three Pillars of Diaspora Criticism

Chapter 6 In Lieu of an Epilogue