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Hardback. New. 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…
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Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory Hardcover - 2011
by Marianne Hirsch (Editor); Nancy K. Miller (Editor)
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- Title Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory
- Author Marianne Hirsch (Editor); Nancy K. Miller (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780231150903 / 0231150903
- Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 22 to UP years
- Grade levels 17 - UP
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Women's Studies
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Poetics, Feminist literary criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011010557
- Dewey Decimal Code 306
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