Title: Bodies on the Move: A Poetics of Home and Diaspora
Abstract:This article not only analyzes a series of diasporic and nondiasporic situations and writings in order to theorize home and diaspora but also produces a prose poetry of its own around the affective bo...This article not only analyzes a series of diasporic and nondiasporic situations and writings in order to theorize home and diaspora but also produces a prose poetry of its own around the affective body painfully on the move. At the heart of this creative essay is always the question, where and what is home? In order to explore the numerous answers, the essay juxtaposes stories and scholarship from a long list of friends, writers, and scholars from around the world. The essay navigates the many options for home: is home a place or a person? Is home still home if the place is no longer there, if traditions have changed, if you yourself have been displaced? Can you write home? Is home of the spirit or of the flesh? Is home a nation, or loyalty to a nation or place? These are the questions that the essay attempts to answer by utilizing such a variety of people and stories.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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