| Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory Contributor(s): Hirsch, Marianne (Editor), Miller, Nancy K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231150903 ISBN-13: 9780231150903 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Literary Criticism - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 2011010557 |
| Series: Gender and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.23 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past. Rites of Return examines the effects of this legacy of historical injustice and documented suffering on the politics of the present. Twenty-four writers, historians, literary and cultural critics, anthropologists and sociologists, visual artists, legal scholars, and curators grapple with our contemporary ethical endeavor to redress enduring inequities and retrieve lost histories. Mapping bold and broad-based responses to past injury across Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States, Rites of Return examines new technologies of genetic and genealogical research, memoirs about lost family histories, the popularity of roots-seeking journeys, organized trauma tourism at sites of atrocity and new Museums of Conscience, and profound connections between social rites and political and legal rights of return. Contributors include: Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University; Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College; Elazar Barkan, Columbia University; Svetlana Boym, Harvard University; Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University; Amira Hass, journalist; Jarrod Hayes, University of Michigan; Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University; Eva Hoffman, writer; Margaret Homans, Yale University; Rosanne Kennedy, Australian National University; Daniel Mendelsohn, writer; Susan Meiselas, photographer; Nancy K. Miller, CUNY Graduate Center; Alondra Nelson, Columbia University; Jay Prosser, University of Leeds; Liz Sevchenko, Coalition of Museums of Conscience; Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College; Marita Sturken New York University; Diana Taylor, New York University; Patricia J. Williams, Columbia University |
Contributor Bio(s): Hirsch, Marianne: - Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her publications include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Columbia, 2012); Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (co-authored with Leo Spitzer) (California, 2010); and Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller (Columbia, 2011).Miller, Nancy K.: - Nancy Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY and co-editor of the Gender and Culture series. Her books include the landmark The Poetics of Gender (ed., Columbia UP, 1987), Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (Columbia University Press, 1989), Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (Routledge, 1991), Bequests and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death (Oxford UP, 1996), But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives (Columbia UP, 2002), Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory (co-editor, Columbia UP, 2011), and others. |