Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas

MICHELLE KEOWN is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK, specializing in postcolonial literature and theory, particularly that of the Pacific. She has published widely on Maori, Pacific and New Zealand writing, and is the author of Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body (2005) and Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania (2007).   DAVID MURPHY is Professor of French at the University of Stirling, UK. He has published widely on African literature and cinema, as well as on the relationship between Francophone studies and postcolonial theory. He is the author of Sembene (2000), and is co-author (with Patrick Williams) of Postcolonial African Cinema (2007).   JAMES PROCTER is Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University, UK. His publications include Writing Black Britain (2000), Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing (2003) and Stuart Hall (2004). He is currently leading a large AHRC project investigating the relationship between reading, location and diasporic literature (www.devolvingdiasporas.com).

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas; M.Keown, D.Murphy & J.Procter PART ONE: DISCOVERING EUROPE European Tribes: Transnational Diasporic Encounters; J.McLeod Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the 'Diasporic' Netherlands; E.Boehmer & F.Gouda Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Art: Gender, Genre and History; S.Shilton PART TWO: NOSTALGIA AND LONGING FOR 'HOME' 'Naturally, I reject the term "diaspora"': Said and Palestinian Dispossession; P.Williams Latin Americans in London and the Dynamics of Diasporic Identities; P.Roman-Velasquez Constructing the Metropolitan Homeland: The Literatures of the White Settler Societies of New Zealand and Australia; J.Wilson PART THREE: COMPARATIVE DIASPORIC CONTEXTS Exile, Incarceration and the Homeland: Jewish References in French Caribbean Novels; C.Britton Vijay Singh's Indo-Fijian Work Ethic: The Politics of Diasporic Definitions; M.Prasad French Atlantic Diasporas; B.Marshall Postscript: Postcolonial Transplants: Cinema, Diaspora, and the Body Politic; E.Ezra & T.Rowden Index