Diaspora, Memory and Identity A Search for Home

This is an innovative collection of essays, empirical studies, and memoirs edited by Vijay Agnew that examines the complex relationship between diaspora, memory, and identity in a search for home. The volume reflects on the movements of people and cultures in the present day, a time when physical, social, and mental borders and boundaries are being challenged and dismantled. The contributors, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, discuss the diasporic experiences of various ethnic and racial groups living in Canada, including South Asians, Iranians, West Indians, Chinese, and Eritreans. A central theme is the way diasporas construct racialized, sexualized, gendered, and oppositional subjectivities, and how the diasporic individual often possesses a "double-consciousness" consistent with postmodernity and globalization. The book contributes to the development of theories concerning diaspora, subjectivity, double-consciousness, gender and class experiences, and the very nature of home. Memories are highlighted as establishing a crucial connection between a collective and individual past, and between origins, heritage, and history for those who have left their places of birth.

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