Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Beyond Borders: Diasporic Explorations of Homes and Ancestral Homelands
	Collection Overview
		Introduction
		Multi-Local Affiliations
		Here and There
		Geographies of Homemaking
		Intersectional Diasporas
		Everyday Nationalisms and Gendered Homes
	The Chapters and Units
		Homelands, Nations, and Migrations: Hardening and Softening of Borders and Boundaries
		Fluid Homes, Fluid Identities: Gender Roles and Multi-Layered Notions of Home
		Diasporic Imaginings of Homemaking and Community Building
		Transnational Return: Trajectories of Ancestral Homeland Narratives
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part I: Homelands, Nations, and Migrations: Hardening and Softening of Borders and Boundaries
	Chapter 2: Altneuland: Nationalism and Colonial Myth in Theodor Herzl, Franz Kafka, and Felix Salten
		Jewish Assimilation and Zionist Nationalism
		Political Zionism, Colonialism, and Kafka’s “Jackals and Arabs”
		Felix Salten and Cultural Zionism
		Bambi: Political Allegory and Humanist Children’s Literature
		Salten in Palestine
		Into the 1930s: Racism and Social Darwinism
		Lawlessness and the Death of Humanism
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 3: The Search for a Home in Migratory Societies: Evaluating Hikmet Temel Akarsu’s Adoration for Abroad in the Context of Architecture and Migration
		Introduction: The Relationship between Architecture and Literature in the Context of Migration, Immigration, Asylum, and Placelessness-Homelessness
		Starting Point, Purpose, Subject of the Study
		The Literary Personality of Hikmet Temel Akarsu and His Works
		Bütün Oyunları [All Plays] by Hikmet Temel Akarsu in the Context of Architecture and Migration
		Yurtdışı Sevdası [Adoration for Abroad]
			Taş Han
			Özgürlük Başka Yerde [Freedom is Elsewhere]
		Closing Discussion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: Hong Kong: Home as Gong Wu: Between the Local, the National, the Colonial, and the Global
		Ip Man’s Wing Chun Pragmatism in The Grandmaster
		“Whatever” philosophy of Luk Nam-choi in Hong Kong Gang
		Bruce Lee’s “Be Water” Philosophy
		Linghu Chong’s Martial Arts Philosophy in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer by Jin Yong
		Hong Kong: Home as Gong Wu
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part II: Fluid Homes, Fluid Identities: Gender Roles and Multi-layered Notions of Home
	Chapter 5: The Identity of the Caribbean “Others”: Maryse Condé and the Women’s Question in Diaspora
		Introduction
		Maryse Condé as Diasporic Author
		Multilayered Notions of Home in Condé’s Writing from A Woman’s Perspective
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: “Shameless Old Men”: Home, Domesticity, Queerness, and the Latvian American Writer Anšlavs Eglītis
		Abject Queer Images in Eglītis’s Fiction
		The Queerness of Household and Homelessness in Eglītis’s Film Reviews
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: Intertextuality and Fragmentation in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine: The Crisis of Identity and Its Representation
		Introduction
		Overview of Rabih Alameddine and Historical Background
		Intertextuality and Fragmentation of the Novel: The Dilemma of Unbelonging
		Sarah’s Search for Belonging Through Relationships in Diaspora
		Conclusion
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: To Make Where You Are Your Home: Hatsuye Egami’s Migration and Writings in Japanese American Concentration Camps
		Introduction
		Hatsuye Egami’s Literary Activities in Prewar Los Angeles
			The Evacuation Diary of Hatsuye Egami
		Building a Women’s World: Hatsuye Egami’s Writing in the Gila River Camp
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
Part III: Diasporic Imaginings of Homemaking and Community Building
	Chapter 9: Where Do We Belong?: Glocal Blackness and the Family Unit in Diasporic African Literatures
		Introduction
		The Destabilization of the Family Structure
		The Dissolution of the Family
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 10: “London Is the Place for Me”: Language, Community Building, and Home-Making in Sam Selvon’s Moses Trilogy
		Language and Community
		Precarious Lodgings and the Racial Line
		Note
		Works Cited
	Chapter 11: Longing for Dissonance: Writing Community in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home
		The Enigma of Trauma
		Trauma and the Abject
		Community in Crisis
		Discourses of Alienation
		Testimony and Language
		Survivor as Witness
		Works Cited
Part IV: Transnational Return: Trajectories of Ancestral Homeland Narratives
	Chapter 12: Coming to Terms with the Hyphen: The Homecoming of a “Cultural Go-Between” in Andrew X. Pham’s Catfish and Mandala
		Challenging the Hyphen: Unraveling the Layers of a Private-Collective Identity
		A Viet Kieu’s Bittersweet Return to an Unrecognizable Homeland
		Beyond Guilt and Discomfort: An Internalized Outsider’s Gaze on the Ancestral Home
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13: Homing Laptop: Return to Reset via Chinese TV Series
		Opening Credits
		Nostalgia: The Human World
		Realpolitik: 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
		Zero Plus Zero Makes Eight, a Mobius Strip: Reset from Sci-fi to Sino-fi
		Closing Credits
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 14: A Tale of Rupture and Hope: Friendship, Race, and Ignorance in Albert Wendt’s Sons for the Return Home
		Friends Outside and Enemies Inside
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 15: Conclusion: Mapping the Multidisciplinary Study of Home and Homeland
		Prologue
		Historical Mapping of Homelessness
		Transnational versus Cosmopolitan
		Public History and Private Memories
		Community Building
		Reclaiming Home: Transnational Return
		Epilogue
		Notes
		Works Cited
Selected Bibliography
Index