Aftermaths

Marcus Bullock is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Romanticism and Marxism and The Violent Eye, and coeditor of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings vol. I: 1913–1926. Peter Y. Paik is an assistant professor in the department of French, Italian, and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Aftermaths is a collection of essays offering compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora that have emerged in the global age. In seeking fresh perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, the essays included here look to the power of the aesthetic experience, especially in literature and film, to unsettle existing theoretical paradigms and enable the rethinking of conventionalized approaches.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION / Peter Y. Paik I EXILE AS ORIGIN      TALES OF MIGRATION FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND CENTRAL EUROPE / Helen Fehervary      WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND           THE IRISH LANDSCAPE AFTER EMIGRATION Andrew Kincaid II THE SPIRITUALITY OF EXILE      THE DIALECTIC OF MARGINALITY IN THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY OF GUADELOUPE, FRENCH WEST INDIES / Paul Brodwin      ON THE METAPHYSICS OF EXILE / Stefan Rossbach III DIASPORAS AND THE REINVENTION OF THE LOCAL      PAYS R¿¿V¿¿, PAYS R¿¿EL CR¿¿OLIT¿¿ AND ITS DIASPORAS / Natalie Melas      CRITICISM, EXILE, IRELAND / Conor McCarthy      EDWIDGE DANTICAT'S LATINIDAD            THE FARMING OF BONES AND THE CULTIVATION (OF FIELDS) OF KNOWLEDGE / Ricardo Ortiz IV MIGRANT FANTASIES      THE GREAT MIGRATION ELSEWHERE / Zoran Samardzija      BENDING IT LIKE BECKHAM           SEX, SOCCER, AND TRAVELING INDIANS / K.E. Supriya      COMING TO THE ANTIPODES           MIGRANCY, TRAVEL, HOMECOMING / Ihab Hassan AFTERWORD THE DIALECTICS OF IDENTITY / Marcus Bullock NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX