Rites of return: diaspora poetics and the politics of memory

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
Part I Tangled Roots and New Genealogies......Page 38
 1. The Factness of Diaspora: The Social Sources of Genetic Genealogy......Page 40
 2. Jews—Lost and Found: Genetic History and the Evidentiary Terrain of Recognition......Page 57
 3. The Web and the Reunion......Page 76
 4. Queering Roots, Queering Diaspora......Page 89
 5. Indigenous Australian Arts of Return: Mediating Perverse Archives......Page 105
Part II Genres of Return......Page 122
 6. Memoirs of Return......Page 124
 7. Return to Half-Ruins: Fathers and Daughters, Memory and History in Palestine......Page 141
 8. Singing with the Taxi Driver: From Bollywood to Babylon......Page 154
 9. Off -Modern Homecoming in Art and Theory......Page 168
 10. Return to Nicaragua: The Aftermath of Hope......Page 183
Part III Rights of Return......Page 188
 11. Between Two Returns......Page 190
 12. Adoption and Return: Transnational Genealogies, Maternal Legacies......Page 202
 13. Foreign Correspondence......Page 217
 14. “O Give Me a Home”......Page 233
 15. The Politics of Return: When Rights Become Rites......Page 244
Part IV. Sites of Return and the New Tourism of Witness......Page 256
 16. Sites of Conscience: Lighting Up Dark Tourism......Page 258
 17. Kishinev Redux: Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony......Page 271
 18. Trauma as Durational Performance: A Return to Dark Sites......Page 285
 19. Pilgrimages, Reenactment, and Souvenirs: Modes of Memory Tourism......Page 297
Contributors......Page 312
Index......Page 316