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Growing Up Transnational : Identity and Kinship in a Global Era /

This collection offers a fresh, feminist perspective on family relations, identity politics, and cultural locations in a global era. Using an interdisciplinary approach from fields including gender studies, postcolonial theory, and literary theory, this volume questions the concept of hybridity and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schultermandl, Silvia, Friedman, May, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Redefining self. Transnational Rio de Janeiro : (Re)visiting geographical experiences / Alan P. Marcus ; When Russia came to stay / Lea Povozhaev ; "Neither the end of the world nor the beginning" : transnational identity politics in Lisa Suhair Majaj's self-writing / Silvia Schultermandl ; Identity and belonging among second-generation Greek and Italian Canadian women / Noula Papayiannis ; Time and space in the life of Pierre S. Weiss : autoethnographic engagements with memory and trans/dis/location / Samuel Veissiere
  • Redefining nation. Contemporary Croatian film and the new social economy / Jelena S̆esnić ; Identity, bodies, and second-generation returnees in West Africa / Erin Kenny ; What is an autobiographical author : becoming the other / Julian Vigo ; Transnational identity mappings in Andrea Levy's fiction / sebnem Toplu
  • Redefining family. The personal, the political, and the complexity of identity : some thoughts on mothering / May Friedman ; Mothers on the move : experiences of Indonesian women migrant workers / Theresa W. Devasahayam and Noor Abdul Rahman ; From Changowitz to Bailey Wong : mixed heritage and transnational families in Gish Jen's fiction / Lan Dong ; Tug of war : the gender dynamics of parenting in a bi/transnational family / Katrin Krĭz and Uday Manandhar.