New Directions in Diaspora Studies

Sarah Ilott is a Senior Lecturer in English and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. Ana Cristina Mendes is an Assistant Professor in English Studies at the University of Lisbon. Lucinda Newns is a Lecturer in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Queen Mary University of London.

Preface, John McLeod / Introduction, Sarah Ilott, Ana Cristina Mendes & Lucinda Newns / Part I: Performing Diaspora / 1. Performing Street Art: CityLeaks, Affiliation, and Transcultural Diaspora, Cathy Covell Waegner / 2. The Pitfalls and Potentials of Transcultural Performance in Diasporic Contexts: Spectating Otherness at Home and Abroad, Miki Flockemann / Part II: Speculative Diasporas / 3. Speculative Migrations: Hari Kunzru’s Historical Consciousness, the Rhetoric of Interplanetary Colonization, and the Locus-Colonial Novel, Rachel Rochester / 4. Mythology of the Space Frontier: Diaspora, Liminality, and the Practices of Remembrance in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber, Agnieszka Podruczna / Part III: Diaspora City Spaces / 5. Diasporic Ways of Knowing: Teju Cole’s Open City, Christiane Steckenbiller / 6. Affecting the City: Flânerie in Doris Lessing’s Writings, Ágnes Györke / Part IV: Affective and Violent Diasporas / 7. Everyday Emotions and Migration: Using Affect to Understand Contemporary Diasporic Fiction, Sibyl Adam / 8. Forms of Diaspora and British New Slaveries in Chris Cleave’s The Other Hand and Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow, Pietro Deandrea / Part V: Challenging Dominant Narratives of Diaspora: Silence and Voice / 9. Gendered Silence in Transnational Narratives, Karen D’Souza / 10. Reading Between Languages: Polyphony in M G Vassanji’s Writing, Asma Sayed