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Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory

Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory

Hirsch, Marianne
Miller, Nancy K.

Hardcover

Series: Gender and Culture

Literary CriticismAnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0231150903
ISBN13: 9780231150903
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Nov 29 2011
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers, historians, literary and cultural critics, anthropologists and sociologists, visual artists, legal scholars, and curators grapple with our contemporary ethical endeavor to redress enduring inequities and retrieve lost histories. Mapping bold and broad-based responses to past injury across Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States, Rites of Return examines new technologies of genetic and genealogical research, memoirs about lost family histories, the popularity of roots-seeking journeys, organized trauma tourism at sites of atrocity and new Museums of Conscience, and profound connections between social rites and political and legal rights of return.

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