Showing papers on "Diaspora published in 1993"

Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies

Abstract: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I. Introduction: Leading Questions II. Where Have All the Natives Gone? III. Postmodern Automatons IV. Pedagogy, Trust, Chinese Intellectuals in the 1990s: Fragments of a Post-Catastrophic Discourse V. Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony VI. The Politics and Pedagogy of Asian Literatures in American Universities VII. Listening Otherwise, Music Miniaturized: A Different Type of Question about Revolution VIII. Media, Matter, Migrants GLOSSARY NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX

Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity

Abstract: Some of the material in this paper is taken from the final chapter of Daniel Boyarin's forthcoming book, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity. Other material is from Jonathan Boyarin's "Der Yiddisher Tsenter; or What Is a Minyan?" and Jonathan Boyarin and Greg Sarris, "Jews and Native Americans as Living Voice and Absent Other," presented at the MLA convention, December 1991. We wish to thank Harry Berger, Jr., Stephen Greenblatt, and Steven Knapp, none of whom necessarily agrees (and one of whom necessarily disagrees) with the claims being made but all of whom made vitally significant interventions. All biblical translations are our own.

Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures

Abstract: Small Acts charts the emergence of a distinctive cultural sensibility that accomplishes the difficult task of being simultaneously both black and English. Straddling the field of popular cultural forms, Paul Gilroy shows how the African diaspora born from slavery has given rise to a web of intimate social relationships in which African-American, Caribbean and now black English elements combine. Discussions of Spike Lee and Frank Bruno, record sleeves, photographs, film and literature from Beloved to Yardie are used to show how new and exciting possibilities have arisen from the transnational flows that create cultural links between the global African diaspora. Small Acts is a seminal work by an important young critic that changes the terms on which black culture will be understood and argued about.

The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History

Abstract: Early modern Asia - geo-politics and economic change 15th- and 16th-century states the circulation of elites towards a taxonomy long-term trends Portuguese state and society, 1200-1500 crown and nobility in search of a bourgeoisie mercantilism and messianism summing up two patterns and their logic - creating an empire, 1498-1540 the early expeditions from Almeida to Albuquerque - defining the first pattern the second pattern - East of Cape Comorin the logic at work - Portuguese Asia, 1525-1540 towards the "crisis" the mid-16th century "crisis" the dilemmas of Joanine policy Sas, Sousas and Castros - Portuguese Asian officialdom in the crisis the mid-century debate the Far Eastern solution the Estado in 1570 between land-bound and sea-borne - reorientations, 1570-1610 trade and conquest - the Spanish view Spain, Portugal and the Atlantic turning girdling the globe the "Land" question the maritime challenge concessions and captains-major the beginnings of decline? empire in retreat, 1610-1665 political reconsolidation in Asia, 1570-1610 Syriam and Hurmuz - the beginnings of retreat reform and its consequences the decade of disasters - Portuguese Asia in the 1630s restoration, truce and failure, 1640-1652 the retreat completed, 1652-1665 Asians, Europeans and the retreat niches and networks - staying on, 1665-1700 the cape route and the Bahia trade the vicissitudes of the estado - the view from Goa Mozambique, Munhumutapa and prazo creation the Portuguese of the Bay of Bengal survival in the Far East - Macau and Timor the Portuguese, Dutch and English - a comparison Portuguese Asian society 1 - the official realm the problem of numbers the world of the Cassado networks, fortunes and patronage "Portuguese" and "foreigner" rise of the Solteiro the impact on Portugal Portuguese Asian society 2 - the frontier and beyond renegades and rebels mercenaries, firearms and fifth columnists converts and client communities a luso-Asian diaspora?.

Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History

Abstract: Preface Introduction: From National Character to National Tradition Part One Imagining Armenia 1 Armenia and Its Rulers 2 Images of the Armenians in the Russian Empire 3 The Emergence of the Armenian Patriotic Intelligentsia in Russia 4 Populism, Nationalism, and Marxism amoung RussiaOs Armenians 5 Labor and Socialism amoung Armenians in Transcaucasia 6 Rethinking the Unthinkable: Toward an Understanding of the Armenian Genocide Part Two State, Nation, Diaspora 7 Armenia and the Russian Revolution 8 Building a Socialist Nation 9 Stalin and the Armenians 10 Return to Ararat: Armenia in the Cold War 11 The New Nationalism in Armenia 12 Nationalism and Democracy: The Case of Karabagh 13 Looking toward Ararat: The Diaspora and the OHomelandO 14 Armenia on the Road to Independence, Again Notes Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages on Modern Armenian History Index

Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora: An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements

Abstract: This groundbreaking volume analyzes important case studies of Black political movements since the 1960s and the impact of the movements on the African-American community. Previous studies on this subject have been largely historical in nature, focusing on the thought of nineteenth-century Pan Africanist or early twentieth-century formal Pan African movements, such as those led by W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. In this book, Walters analyzes heretofore largely unaddressed cases in which African-American societies forged connections with others in the Diaspora within the framework of significant political movements. He applies social science theory to the analysis of the cases, based on the proposition that Pan African studies - a subject within the broad field of Africana Studies - is itself very diverse and lends itself to analysis by an unlimited number of modern disciplinary approaches and perspectives. Walters uses the tools of comparative politics for examining similar Black and white social institutions and organizations in the United States and other countries and for creating a "tailored" Pan African perspective as a criteria with which to describe the interactive relationships between the American Black community and Blacks in Britain, South Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He fashions a unique and radically new perspective and model for addressing the age-old question of the African continuum by advancing the notion that Pan Africanism can be about the struggle for community - a struggle not incompatible with efforts to change the State. His is a twenty-first century view of race relations and classes in the post-modern era of capitalism. Pan Africanism in the AfricanDiaspora is broadly a work of political science in that it is concerned with political phenomena and applies methods of analysis from that field. Nevertheless, it is also interdisciplinary in content, perspective, and analytical approach. Walters' new data transcends the notions pr

Reading the Literatures of Asian America

Abstract: Acknowledgments Foreword Elaine H. Kim Introduction Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling Part I: Ambivalent Identities 1. The Ambivalent American: Asian American Literature on the Cusp Shirley Geok-lin Lim 2. Versions of Identity in Post-Activist Asian American Poetry George Uba 3. Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile Oscar V. Campomanes 4. Beyond "Clay Walls": Korean American Literature Chung-Hei Yun 5. Witnessing the Japanese Canadian Experience in World War II: Processual Structure, Symbolism, and Irony in Joy Kogawa's Obasan Cheng Lok Chua Part II: Race and Gender 6. Ethnicizing Gender: An Exploration of Sexuality as Sign in Chinese Immigrant Literature Sau-ling Cynthia Wong 7. Rebels and Heroines: Subversive Narratives in the Stories of Wakako Yamauchi and Hisaye Yamamoto Stan Yogi 8. Facing the Incurable: Patriarchy in Eat a Bowl of Tea Ruth Y. Hsiao 9. "Don't Tell": Imposed Silences in The Color Purple and the Woman Warrior King-Kok Cheung 10. Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men Donald C. Goellnicht Part III: Borders and Boundaries 11. Sense of Place, History, and the Concept of the "Local" in Hawaii's Asian/Pacific American Literatures Stephen H. Sumida 12. Momotaro's Exile: John Okada's No-No Boy Gayle K. Fujita Sato 13. Blue Dragon, White Tiger: The Bicultural Stance of Vietnamese American Literature Renny Christopher 14. From Isolation to Integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's Fiction Qui-Phiet Tran 15. South Asia Writes North America: Prose Fictions and Autobiographies from the Indian Diaspora Craig Tapping Part IV: Representations and Self-Representations 16. Creating One's Self: The Eaton Sisters Amy Ling 17. The Production of Chinese American Tradition: Displacing American Orientalist Discourse David Leiwei Li 18. Clashing Constructs of Reality: Reading Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book as Indigenous Ethnography Patricia Lin 19. The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation James S. Moy 20. Ping Chong's Terra In/Cognita: Monsters on Stage Suzanne R. Westfall Notes on Contributors

Reworlding : the literature of the Indian diaspora

Abstract: Introduction by Emmanuel S. Nelson The Girmit Ideology Revisited: Fiji Indian Literature by Vijay Mishra V. S. Naipaul: History as Cosmic Irony by P. S. Chauhan Voice in Exile: "Journey" in Raja Rao and V. S. Naipaul by K. Chellappan South Asia/North America: New Dwellings and the Past by Craig Tapping Passages from India: Migrating to America in the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul and Bharati Mukherjee by C. L. Chua "The Sorrows of a Broken Time": Agha Shahid Ali and the Poetry of Loss and Recovery by Lawrence Needham Still Arriving: The Assimilationist Indo-Caribbean Experience of Marginality by Victor Ramraj History and Community Involvement in Indo-Fijian and Indo-Trinidadian Writing by Helen Tiffin Staying Close but Breaking Free: Indian Writers in Singapore by Kirpal Singh Sam Selvon's Tiger: In Search of Self-Awareness by Harold Barratt Indian Writing in East and South Africa: Multiple Approaches to Colonialism and Apartheid by Arlene A. Elder Kamala Markandaya and the Indian Immigrant Experience in Britain by Hena Ahmad Rushdie's Fiction: The World Beyond the Looking Glass by Vijay Lakshmi Author(iz)ing Midnight's Children and Shame: Salman Rushdie's Constructions of Authority by Anuradha Dingwaney Selected Bibliography Index

Koineization in the Bhojpuri–Hindi diaspora ― with special reference to South Africa

Abstract: Koineization is the process which leads to mixing of linguistic Subsystems, that is, of language varieties which either are mutually intelligible or share the same genetically related superposed language. It occurs in the context of increased interaction or Integration among Speakers of these varieties. A koine is the stabilized composite variety that results from this process. Formally, a koine is characterized by a mixture of features from the contributing varieties, and at an early stage of development, it is often reduced or simplified in comparison to any of these varieties. Functionally, a koine serves äs a lingua franca among Speakers of the different varieties. It also may become the primary language of amalgamated communities of these Speakers.

Indian Communities Abroad: Themes and Literature

Abstract: The author sums up contemporary themes and literature in sociology and social anthropology, pertaining to the global phenomenon of Indian diaspora. The volume also addresses issues of race relations, plural societies intercultural melange creolization and the globalization of ethnicity.

An Historical Geography of Ireland

Abstract: Contributors. Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. List of Tables. B.J. Graham, Early Medieval Ireland: Settlement as an Indicator of Economic and Social Transformation. B.J. Graham, The High Middle Ages. T.B. Barry, Date Medieval Ireland: The Debate on Social and Economic Transformation. R. Gillespie, Explorers, Exploiters and Entrepreneurs: Early Modern Ireland and its Context. L. Kennedy and L.A. Clarkson, Secular Trends and Regional Variation in Irish Population. L.J. Proudfoot, Regionalism and Localism: Religious Change and Social Protest. L.J. Proudfoot , Spatial Transformation and Social Agency: Property Society and Improvement. S.A. Royle, Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Urban Society in Post-Famine Ireland. M. Turner, Rural Economies in Post-Famine Ireland. C.J. Houston and W.J. Smyth, The Irish Diaspora: Emigration to the New World. B. Collins, The Irish in Britain. W.J. Smyth, The Making of Ireland: Agendas and Perspectives in Cultural Geography.

Tropical Diaspora: The Jewish Experience in Cuba

Abstract: For the generations of Jews who immigrated to Cuba after 1900, the experience was bittersweet. Cuba welcomed immigrants long after the United States shut its doors to them in 1924, particularly refugees from Nazism. Yet the story of Cuban Jewry also includes the tragic 1939 drama of the SS St. Louis, turned away from Havana and the United States with its cargo of German-Jewish refugees still aboard, a propaganda coup for Germany. Although many Jews prospered economically on the island, they always remained outsiders, denied access to political influence and to high society. Unlike Jewish communities elsewhere, Jews in Cuba played virtually no cultural or intellectual role. Ironically, those who emigrated to the United States as politically (and economically) desirable refugees after the 1959 revolution were the same Jews, or the children of the same Jews, who had been deemed undesirable and denied U.S. entry in the 1920s. Robert Levine interviewed nearly a hundred Cuban-Jewish immigrants in the course of writing this book, and his use of their words lends the work an especially engaging, lively quality and makes it a vivid reflection of how the immigrants thought and felt and lived. The pages contain more than seventy-five rare photographs of the island and of the Jewish community from its origins to its near-moribund state today. Levine also compares the experience of Cuba's Jews with that of other immigrant groups, as well as that of Holocaust survivors in other Caribbean and Central American countries. The book's broad scope thus gives it appeal not only for students of Latin American Jewish issues but for all those interested in the relationship between majority and minoritysocieties in the Americas.

Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora

Abstract: This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist churches throughout rural Texas. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses of this material uncover striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and the religious rituals of Western and Central Africa, as well as other African-derived rituals in the United States Sea Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Pitts demonstrates that African and African-American worship share an underlying binary ritual frame: the somber melancholy of the first frame and the high emotion of the second frame. Pitts's revealing perspective on this often misunderstood aspect of African-American religion provides an investigative model for the study of diaspora cultural practices and the residual influence of their African sources.

The New Russian Diaspora: Minority Protection in the Soviet Successor States

Abstract: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has transformed the 25 million ethnic Russians living outside the Russian Federation into a new Russian diaspora. This situation represents a potential threat to political stability among and within the Soviet successor states. Right-wing political groups in Russia pose as defenders of the national rights of the diaspora. If they were able to induce the Russian Army to intervene in the non-Russian states on behalf of the diaspora, a situation dangerously similar to the Yugoslav conflict could arise. The problem of the diaspora can be neutralized through migration, border regulations and/or the establishment of regimes for minority rights. The stabilizing/destabilizing potential of each of these options is evaluated here with reference to the recent post-Soviet debate on the issue. It is argued that large-scale migration aimed at creating optimally 'pure' ethnic nation-states may easily unleash uncontrollable chain reactions. Most non-Russian successor states are categorically opposed to border regulations; many Russian politicians have qualms as well. They are, inter alia, afraid that if the principle of the popular will is used to determine territorial issues, it might lead to a dismantling of the multi-ethnic Russian Federation. The least destabilizing option seems to be minority protection. The West could contribute to a viable human rights regime in the CIS by applying a differentiated trade and aid policy and giving the respective governments material incentives to respect the rights of the minorities. In any case, the leadership in the non-Russian successor states should, in their own interest, avoid providing the irredentist parties in Russian politics with arguments and sympathizers.

Mati-ism and black lesbianism: two idealtypical expressions of female homosexuality in black communities of the Diaspora

Abstract: There are different ways in which black women in the Diaspora have given expression to their erotic fascination with other women. In this article two idealtypical expressions of black female homosexuality and the outlines of their underlying cosmologies are sketched: mati-ism and black lesbianism. Mati (or matisma) is the Sranan Tongo word for women who have sexual relations with other women, but who typically also will have had or still have relationships with men, simultaneously. More often than not they will also have children. While both types can only be understood via a constructionist view of homosexuality, the institution of mati-ism will be shown to have retained more Afrocentric, working class elements, while black lesbianism has more middle class, Eurocentric features.

Eternal Guilt?: Forty Years of German-Jewish-Israeli Relations

Abstract: Should the Germans of today continue to atone for the sins of their forebears? "Eternal Guilt" argues persuasively that Germans, Israelis and American Jews cling to their historical legacy in order to manipulate contemporary political ends. In their social interactions since 1950, Germans, Jews, and Israelis have largely abandoned the "us versus them" worldview fostered by the Holocaust. At the personal level, members of these groups increasingly deal with one another as individuals living in the present. Germans and Israelis are increasingly willing to visit each other's countries; Diaspora Jews are reluctant to settle in Israel; intermarriage is prevalent among Jews and majority populations everywhere. Nonetheless, at the official level images and memories of the past prevail; the past remains important not as intrinsically instructive but as pragmatically useful in manipulating political aims. Wolffsohn demonstrates that this gap between "routine policy" among individuals and "historical policy" among nations results in continuing misunderstandings and ongoing disputes. Wolffsohn argues that if the continuing spiral of inflammatory rhetoric and political manoeuvering is ever to end, official positions must catch up to popular behaviour. His epilogue analyzes the implications of reunification for the relations among these groups.

Sephardim: The Jews from Spain

Abstract: Here, in a single volume, is the first comprehensive history in English of the Sephardim--descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 by Ferdinand and Isabel. Writing for the general reader as well as for the specialist, Paloma Di az-Mas provides a superbly organized and up-to-date account of Sephardic culture, history, religious practice, language, and literature. Most of the Sephardim originally settled in Mediterranean Europe, the Low Countries, North Africa, and the Turkish Empire. In the nineteenth century, however, a second diaspora brought the Sephardim to the United States, South America, Israel, and Western Europe. Di az-Mas begins with a brief overview of Jewish religion and culture, discussing the calendar, holidays, dietary laws, and life-cycle ceremonies. Next, she traces the history of the Jews in Spain through the 1492 expulsion. She succinctly describes their subsequent wanderings, settlements, and achievements up to the nineteenth century, when false messiahs caused crises that had a profound impact on Sephardic communities. After detailing the various causes of the second diaspora, the author addresses the effect of the Holocaust specifically on the Sephardim--an issue almost entirely overlooked elsewhere. Di az-Mas also reviews the involvement of the Sephardim in Spanish politics through the Moroccan Protectorate and into Franco's time and the present. The final chapter focuses on the situation of the Sephardim throughout the world today. Di az-Mas's treatment of the language of the Sephardim--called Ladino or Judeo-Spanish--shows how it diverged from "mainstream" Spanish in the 1500s, how it later developed regionaldialects, and why it is now disappearing as an everyday language. In addition to traditional Sephardic literature--religious works, "coplas" (verses), popular stories--newer genres like journalism and theater are also examined. Authoritative and completely accessible, "Sephardim" will appeal to anyone interested in Spanish culture and Jewish civilization. Each chapter ends with a list of recommended reading, and the book includes an extensive bibliography of works in Spanish, French, and English. "Much has been written about the Sephardim. However, not everything said and written--by Spaniards or others--reflects the truth. . . . My aim--in addition to refuting some of the most often-repeated beliefs--is to give the general reader worthwhile, truthful, and well- documented information about the Sephardim, their history, their language, their culture, and their relations with Spain."--From the Introduction

Black women's employment and the British economy

Abstract: Book synopsis: A lively and informed reflection on the experience of black people in Britain. The varied experience of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, with its difficult and fractured history, is reflected in this distinctive and lively collection. The contributors to Inside Babylon show how employers and police, psychiatrists and welfare services, help to channel black people into residential and occupational ghettoes. Clive Harris, Bob Carter and Shirley Joshi analyse the economic destiny of Afro-Caribbeans in Britain. Going beyond the familiar prisms of race relations and reductionist class analysis they illuminate the radicalizing dynamic of British capitalism in the postwar period. Errol Francis provides a shocking account of the experience of black people at the hands of psychiatrists in Britain. Cecil Gutzmore finds the Notting Hill carnival to be a litmus test of racist formations in both the media and the state, as well as evidence of the resilience of the black community. Amina Mama and Claudette Williams explore the position of women in black communities while Gail Lewis focuses on their characteristic patterns of employment. In a powerful concluding essay Winston James charts the unfolding of a new Afro-Caribbean identity in Britain and debunks the notion that racist structures by themselves create a homogeneous black community. Inside Babylon is a radical and timely indictment which moves beyond over-simplified and misleading stereotypes to identify and explore the impressive struggles of black people of Britain.

Diasporas in world politics : the Greeks in comparative perspective

Abstract: Part 1 Introduction: diasporas in world politics - an introduction, Dimitri Constas and Athanassios Platias. Part 2 The Greek diaspora in Greek foreign policy - a historical perspective, Procopis Papastratis ethnicity and foreign policy - Greek-American activism and the Turkish arms ban, Paul Watanabe the reverse influence phenomenon - the impact of the Greek-American lobby on the foreign policy of Greece, Van Coufoudakis the Hellenic-American community in foreign policy considerations of the motherland, Nikolaos A. Stavrou the Greek community and Australian foreign policy - with particular reference to the Cyprus issue, Andrew C. Theophanous and Michalis S. Michael the role of the Greek communities in the formulation of Canadian foreign policy, Stephanos Constantinides the involvement of the Greek community in South Africa in the formulation of the foreign policy of Greece, Christos Theodoropoulos. Part 3 Opportunity structures in host countries: ethnicity and Canadian foreign policy, Kalevi J. Holsti ethnic groups in Australian politics, James Jupp diasporas and the formation of foreign policy - the US in comparative perspective, Walker Connor. Part 4 Comparative perspectives: the Armenian diaspora and the narrative of power, Richard G. Hovannisian Jewry, Jews and Israeli foreign policy - a critical perspective, Gabriel Sheffer.

Breaking Through the Barriers Using Video as a Tool for Intercultural Communication

Abstract: Although the termAfrican diaspora is commonly used as the basis of group classification and unity, there is much cultural diversity among the peoples of the diaspora. The dispersal of African peoples throughout the world resulted in myriad regional, class, and cultural differences. As a result of this cultural separation, African Americans have continually searched for ways to reinstall cultural linkages to their African heritage. However, such Pan-African exploration has taken many often divergent directions (Asante, 1983). The descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the United States, for example, have been enculturated to the point where the particular U.S. pattern for living has become "natural." Thus many African Americans residing in the United States have consciously and unconsciously adopted the "American" culture (i.e., values, attitudes, customs, beliefs) as the worldview lens through which they observe, participate, and evaluate the other members of the African diaspora. However, those who have been fortunate to travel to the continent of Africa, for instance, have been resocialized into their Africanness in the broadest sense: acquiring a sense of personal identity; learning what to believe and how to behave; learning values, norms, and skills; and, most importantly, acquiring a sense of their origin. Unfortunately, most African Americans have experienced the problem of marginality because they have been largely isolated from this process (Carrington, 1991). They have not had

The Hart sisters: early African Caribbean writers, evangelicals, and radicals

Abstract: ""The Hart Sisters" will be of great importance for social and cultural historians, literary and cultural critics working in Afro-Caribbean, African-American, and Afro-British studies, as well as those scholars working across national and disciplinary boundaries to construct the interwoven narratives of the African diaspora, antislavery movements, and the history of colonialism" (Cora Kaplan, author of "Sea Changes: Culture and Feminism") Daughter of a black slaveholder father, Anne Hart Gilbert and Elizabeth Hart Thwaites were among the first educators of slaves and free African Caribbeans in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Antigua These members of the "free colored" community who married white men and played an active role as educators, antislavery activists, and Methodist evangelicals were also among the first African Caribbean female writers This exceptional volume offers for the first time a collection of their writings Because the records of the Hart sisters are rare and original testimony from black women of the time, they will be of great interest to the modern scholar Autobiographical and biographical narrative, along with antislavery tracts, hymns, devotional poetry, and religious documents vividly reveal the lives of these courageous women Their writings illuminate the complex of racial, spiritual, and class- and gender-based divisions, as well as attitudes, of Anglophone Caribbean society Moira Ferguson's introduction situates the Hart sisters in historical context and explains how their writings helped establish a specific black Antiguan cultural identity Moira Ferguson is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of "Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery" and "East Caribbean: Gender and Colonial Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid"

Das Selbstverständnis der jüdischen Diaspora in der hellenistisch-römischen Zeit

Abstract: Fifteen years after his death the last book by Willem Cornelis van Unnik (1910-1978) is now published. This great scholar presents here the results of his thorough investigation of self-definition in the Jewish diaspora of late antiquity. After an introductory chapter which includes a brief history of research, Van Unnik investigates the semantic field of the Greek term diaspora, the use of this word in the Septuagint and the New Testament, the history of the term in post-biblical Jewish and Christian writings, and the theological understanding of the term. Van Unnik concludes that in Jewish circles living in the diaspora has always been regarded as an essentially negative and frightening phenomenon, much more so than many modern investigations would have us believe. The main text of this book. The main text of this book is completely from the pen of Van Unnik; only the footnotes were missing. The editor has added footnotes and an extensive biographical-bibliographical introduction and appendices.

Notes on the fantastic journey of the Hajj, his anthropologist, and her American Passport

Abstract: Many Israeli representations of the Sinai have sought to preserve (or recreate?) a pastoral idyll of biblical wilderness in the midst of 20th-century military occupation (1967–82) This article argues that such works are shaped by the Israeli discourses of Judaism, Zionism, and Arabism—discourses of diaspora, displacement, and marginalization Coauthored by an old Mzeini Bedouin, an Israeli ethnographer, and her American spouse, the article aims at deterritorializing the boundaries of the Bedouin as a scholarly trope in such works by discursively retracing his mutated lived experience out of the final Eurocentric text The “native” is thus positioned as literary critic of his Eurocentric textual representation [ethnographic authorship, ethnographic creativity and the discourse of subalternity, displacement and diaspora, Israeli and Egyptian nationalisms, South Sinai Bedouin (Mzeina tribe), fieldwork and family]