Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity

Smadar Lavie is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory at the University of California at Davis.

""Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity" is informed not only by detailed attention to specific case studies or theoretical analyses, but also by an awareness of theoretical work in several fields which allows the highlighting of points and circuits of connections across disciplines and areas. This collection succeeds in ways which are thought provoking and likely to lead to vital discussions across disciplines."-- David Lloyd, University of California, Berkeley

Introduction: Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity / Smadar Lavie and Ted SwedenburgLiving With Miracles: The Politics and Poetics of Writing American Indian Resistance and Identity / Greg SarrisAnzaldua's Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics / Norma AlarcónBlowups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home / Smadar LavieThe Narrative Production of "Home," Community, and Political Identity in Asian American Theater / Dorinne KondoArab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities / Joan Gross, David McMurray, and Ted SwedenburgTourism in the Balinese Borderzone / Edward M. BrunerSongs Lodged in Some Hearts: Displacements of Women's Knowledge in Kangra / Kirin Narayan"Cultural Defense" and Criminological Displacements: Gender, Race, and (Trans)Nation in the Legal Surveillance of U.S. Diaspora Asians / Kristin KoptiuchThe Figure of the X: An Elaboration of the Du Boisian Autobiographical Example / Nahum D. ChandlerCrosscurrents, Crosstalk: Race, "Postcoloniality," and the Politics of Location / Ruth Frankenberg and Lata ManiBibliographyIndexContributors