Ethnic Life Writing and Histories: Genres, Performance, and CultureIn the context of the fraught ethnic politics in our increasingly globalized world, negotiating with historical memory has become both a cultural obsession and a powerful political weapon. The essays describe how processes of literary creativity and historical inscription blend significantly to produce texts that require nuanced readings on many levels. Half the essays focus on Asian American texts, inviting crucial connections and insights on the ways ethnic concerns are reflected methodologically. Roco G. Davis teaches at the Modern Languages Department of the University of Navarre, Pamplona (Spain). Jaume Aurell is a researcher at the history department of the University of Navarre, Pamplona. Ana Beatriz Delgado is a teaching assistant at the University of Navarre. |
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Rather , they underline the complex relationship between body and memory and between embodied memory and the language in which that memory is both stored and storied . The troubled and unstable relationship between language and embodied ...
... reflects the prolonged exile of Palestinians and their on - going search for a homeland . In the process , he never loses sight of his identity as a Palestinian , nor of the relationship of his story to the history of Palestine .
In the text , Darwish examines the complex relationship of the narratives of the past and present , both his own personal narratives and the narratives of the Palestinian people , in the formation of national identity .
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Introduction | 9 |
Memory Poetry and the Body | 22 |
An Introduction | 40 |
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