Carmen In Diaspora

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Carmen in Diaspora is a cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts. Beginning with Prosper Mérimée's novella and Georges Bizet's opera and continuing through twentieth- and twentieth-first century interpretations in literature, film, and musical theatre, the book explores how opera's most famous character has exceeded the 19th-century French context in which she was created and taken on a life of her own. Through this transformation, the Carmen figure has sparked important conversations not only about French culture and canonical opera but also about Black womanhood, community, and self-determination.

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Genre : Music
Author : Associate Professor of English African & African Diaspora Studies and Comparative Literature Jennifer Wilks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2024-11-08
File : 281 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780197566145


Merchants In The Ottoman Empire

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To a large extent the present volume deals with merchants established on Ottoman territory for a long time. Whether they were subjects of the sultans or not will be considered of secondary importance; but many if not most of them probably fell into that category. 'Hard to pin down' traders also occur; in particular we have included a number of studies discussing people who started their lives as Ottoman subjects but whose business activities took them to Venice or the Habsburg territories, where some of them struck roots. Such situations after all form part of the life stories of merchants anywhere; and given the broad expanses of sea and land that many Mediterranean traders traversed, it makes sense to adopt as broad a perspective as possible.

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Genre : Europe
Author : Suraiya Faroqhi
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Release : 2008
File : 404 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39076002819741


Haiti Re Membered Exile Diaspora And Transnational Imaginings On The Writings Of Edwidge Danticat And Myriam Chancy

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Author : Nadège Tanite Clitandre
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Release : 2009
File : 598 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:C3528073


Encyclopedia Of The African Diaspora

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"Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora spans global history, tracing the movements that created the African Diaspora and the ways that African peoples have recreated themselves all over the world. Emphasizing the recurring themes of dispersal, re-creation, and transformation, the encyclopedia offers vivid coverage of Diaspora communities, locations, peoples, culture and the arts, historical events, organizations, and theories and concepts developed by the scholars who have made this field of inquiry so rich and evocative."--pub. desc.

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Genre : Africa
Author : Carole Boyce Davies
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Release : 2008
File : 438 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015079239680


Culture Representation And The Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora

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Genre : Gay people
Author : Lawrence Martin La Fountain-Stokes
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Release : 1999
File : 266 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105024901659


Manufacturing Powerlessness In The Black Diaspora

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Despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the persistent plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora continue to elude scholars, politicians, and community leaders. Charles Green brings a decade of research and original fieldwork in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States to investigate the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization.

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Genre : History
Author : Charles St. Clair Green
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Release : 2001
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105110347130


Okinawan Diaspora

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The first Okinawan immigrants arrived in Honolulu in January 1900 to work as contract laborers on Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Over time Okinawans would continue migrating east to the continental U.S., Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, New Caledonia, and the islands of Micronesia. The essays in this volume commemorate these diasporic experiences within the geopolitical context of East Asia. Using primary sources and oral history, individual contributors examine how Okinawan identity was constructed in the various countries to which Okinawans migrated, and how their experiences were shaped by the Japanese nation-building project and by globalization. Essays explore the return to Okinawan sovereignty, or what Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzaburo called an "impossible possibility," and the role of the Okinawan labor diaspora in Japan's imperial expansion into the Philippines and Micronesia. Contributors: Arakaki Makoto, Robert K. Arakaki, Hokama Shuzen, Edith M. Kaneshiro, Ronald Y. Nakasone, Nomura Koya, Shirota Chika, Tomiyama Ichiro, Wesley Ueunten.

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Genre : History
Author : Ronald Y. Nakasone
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Release : 2002-02-28
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015054441020


Transfiguring Diaspora

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Genre : Dance
Author : Celia Weiss Bambara
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Release : 2008
File : 674 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCR:31210022794216


Diaspora Criticism

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Diaspora criticism takes the concept 'diaspora' as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also offers an alternative to Postcolonial Studies. This book is the first to provide an accessible overview of the critical trends in Diaspora criticism and to critically evaluate the major Diaspora critics and their models, with the aim of adding to the debate on methodology. This authoritative account will be of interest to those working in Diaspora Studies and its related fields of History, Literature, Art, Sociology, Population and Migration Studies, Politics, and Ethnic and Postcolonial Studies.

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Genre : History
Author : Sudesh Mishra
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Release : 2006
File : 208 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015070740421


Journal Of The Hellenic Diaspora

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Genre : Greece
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Release : 2005
File : 396 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015079669662