Diasporic Choices.

Intro -- Diasporic Choices -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Diasporic Choices -- Part 1 Cinema as Diasporic Reflection -- Particle/Wave: Cinema as Conservator in a Diasporic World -- Bollywood in Diaspora: Cherishing Occidentalist Nostalgia -- A Phenomenological Reading of Temporality and Natality in Relation to the Diasporic Indian Reception of the Bollywood Text with Reference to Mauritius -- Yellow Sea: A Floating Home of Chinese Korean Minority -- Part 2 Diasporic Narrations and Fragments -- Transcending the Limitations of Diaspora as a Category of Cultural Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing around Your Neck -- Esmeralda Santiago: Writing Memories, Creating a Nation -- Marriage Conventions in Monica Ali's Brick Lane -- Diaspoetics in the Literature of Karen Tei Yamashita: Brazilian and Japanese Diasporas Compared -- Global Cosmopolitanism and Diasporic Singularities -- Walcott's Poetry: Portrayal of Broken Boundaries -- Part 3 Diasporic Generations -- Gendered Diasporas across Generations: The New African Diaspora in Vancouver -- Young Migrant: Rooted Generations of Germany in Fatih Akin's Films -- Linguistic Attitudes and Linguistic Practices in the Global Age: The Case of the First Generation of Serbian Highly Educated Migrants -- Part 4 Shifting and Maintaining Identities -- Searching for Authenticity through Desire: Greek Canadian Women and the Heritage Fling -- Diasporic Circassian National Identity: An Example of the Circassian Diaspora in Jordan -- Traditional Rituals or Return of the Empire -- Topological and Content Analysis of the Cyberspace of the Indian Diaspora -- Un/settling Im/migrants: Towards Decolonising ImmigrantIndigenous Relationships -- Part 5 Adaptation and Reproduction in Diaspora -- Magazine Contacto: The Construction and (Re)production of the Portuguese Diaspora in the Mediascape.

Cultural Adaptation and Translation as Motivation for Researching the Polish Diaspora in the United Kingdom -- Wandering Dwellings: Diasporic Architectures.

This volume presents diasporas in the context of globalisation and contributing social, historical and cultural factors within film, literature, poetry and current socio-political and international matters.

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