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[Review of] Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron. Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home
In Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home, Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron theorize new ways of thinking about nationality and citizenship within a global context, focusing on Haiti and its diaspora. The authors discuss recent debates about transnationalism and the changing notions of citizenship across national boundaries and further research on the subject by Michel Laguerre, Rainer Bauböck, Aihwa Ong, Glick Schiller, Linda Basch, and Cristina Szanton Blanc. It is evident that the nature of their work necessitates a subjective methodology, and this becomes part of the book\u27s analyses. Combining autobiography with ethnographic field research, and qualitative, collaborative analysis, the authors incisively reveal their personal and political investments in the work
Create Dangerously: A Poetics of Writing as Memorial Art; The Text as Echo Chamber.
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Fat, syn and disordered eating: The dangers and powers of excess
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Fat Studies on 8 April 2015 available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/21604851.2015.1016777This article draws on qualitative research inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how ancient Christian suspicions of appetite and pleasure resurface in this groupâs language of âSyn.â Following ancient Christian representations of sin, members assume that Syn depicts disorder and that fat is a visible sign of a body which has fallen out of place. Syn, though, is ambiguous, utilizing ancient theological meanings to discipline fat while containing within it the power to resist the very borders which hold womenâs bodies and fat in place. Syn thus signals both the dangers and powers of disordered eating.This article draws on qualitative research inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how ancient Christian suspicions of appetite and pleasure resurface in this groupâs language of âSyn.â Following ancient Christian representations of sin, members assume that Syn depicts disorder and that fat is a visible sign of a body which has fallen out of place. Syn, though, is ambiguous, utilizing ancient theological meanings to discipline fat while containing within it the power to resist the very borders which hold womenâs bodies and fat in place. Syn thus signals both the dangers and powers of disordered eating
What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
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Nomadism, diaspora and deracination in contemporary migrant literatures
The dissertation examines the nomadism of contemporary migrant writers who deliberately resist location and deterritorialize the dĂ©rive and dĂ©racinement of the nomad. Through nomadism, these writers elude the fixed identity categoriesâle nĂšgre, le migrant, l\u27autreâoften imposed on them by the country of adoption. These three writersâEdwidge Danticat, Dany LaferriĂšre, and Linda LĂȘâeach write out the diasporic and exilic dislocations of nomadism: linguistic, geopolitical and schizo-social. The hybrid methodology informing this study includes postcolonial, poststructuralist and feminist theories. The first four chapters establish the theoretical parameters for reading nomadic literatures, and the final chapter offers nomadic readings of contemporary Haitian and Vietnamese migrant literatures in France, Quebec, and the United States. These subtitles are problematic; yet, I theoretically problematize these terms and the national boundaries (geopolitical, psychological, and schizo-social) that they signify. Thus, the termsâVietnamese and Haitian, specifically as situated in France, QuĂ©bec and the United States of Americaâare read less as discrete geographical or national domains, and more as a transmuting (if also transnationalist) impulse, a setting of the two states into creative tension. I examine the multi-cultural and plurilingual âborder crossingsâ which occur in nomadic migrant writers, such as LĂȘ, who writes out the linguistic and identitary vicissitudes of migration. Similarly, I explore how two francophone Haitian writersâan Ă©migrĂ© in QuĂ©bec (LaferriĂšre) and the other a refugee/immigrant in the United States (Danticat)âtake flight in different languages: the first in a minor usage of French, the latter in a minor usage of English. My analysis of these writers emphasizes several core themes: espaces exilaires; the deterritorialization of fixed identitary categories (whether around issues of gender, nationality, sexuality, or race); the destabilization of language, both the mother-tongue and the colonial (âcolonizingâ) language; and the literary and cultural nomadism of migrant writers who ultimately resist immigration. Each migrant writer nomadically deterritorializes the spaces and tropes of migratory writingâterritories of old, new, natal, adopted, native, acquired, immigrant, migrant and citizen. Through my readings, I show that even in texts by migrant writers, who move from one place to another, a sort of nomadism persists