Diaspora, Law and Literature

Klaus Stierstorfer, Daniela Carpi, Klaus Stierstorfer, Daniela Carpi

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110488210
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Literature

The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another interdisciplinary field, the study of the relations between law and literature, which focuses on the ways in which the two cultural practices of law and literature mutually negotiate each other and on the question after the ontological commensurability of the domains. This volume offers, for the first time, an attempt to provide an interface between these overlapping interdisciplinary endeavours of literary studies, legal studies, and diaspora studies. In doing so, it explores new approaches and invites new perspectives on diasporas, migration and the disciplines that study them, hopefull also adding to the cultural resources of coping with a swiftly changing social landscape in a globalizing world.

Fußnoten

1	Samir Dayal, “Diaspora and Double Consciousness,” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 29.1 (1996): 46–62, 46.
2	Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas (London and New York: Routledge, second ed. 2008): 2.
3	Dayal, “Diaspora and Double Consciousness,” 54.
4	See Brian Massumi, A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (Cambridge: MIT P, 1992): 185.
5	Dayal, “Diaspora and Double Consciousness,” 48.
6	Dayal, “Diaspora and Double Consciousness,” 51.
7	Kevin Kenny, Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Jana Evans Braziel, Anita Mannur, ed., Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003); Klaus Stierstorfer, Janet Wilson, ed., The Routledge Reader in Diaspora Studies (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2016); Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, ed. Khachig Tölölyan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) 1– (1991–).
8	Vijay Mishra, “Voices from the Diaspora,” in The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora, ed. Brij V. Lal, Peter Reeves, Rajesh Rai (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006): 120–139, 139.
9	The fact that neither Kevin Kenny in his Very Short Introduction nor Braziel and Mannur in their Reader so much as mention literature shows that a fair assessment of the contribution of diaspora literature still needs to mature and develop in inter- and transdisciplinary diaspora research.
10	Seyla Benhabib, The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens [2004] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
11	Prakash Shah, Werner F. Menski, “Introduction: Migration, Diasporas and Legal Systems in Europe,” in Migration, Diasporas and Legal Systems in Europe. ed. Shah, Menski (London, New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2006): 1–12, 1.
12	“Dasz ′recht und poesie miteinander aus einem bette aufgestanden waren, hält nicht schwer zu glauben” (Jakob Grimm, “Von der Poesie im Recht,” § 2, in Zeitschrift für die geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft 2.1 [1816]: 25–99, 26).
13	Thomas Sprecher, Literatur und Recht. Eine Bibliographie für Leser (Frankfurt: Vittoria Klostermann, 2011); see also James Boyd White, The Legal Imagination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973); Richard Weisberg, Poethics and Other Strategies of Law and Literature (New York and Oxford: Columbia University Press, 1992); for a survey see Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg, Literary Criticisms of Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
14	Vèvè A. Clark, “Developing Diaspora Literacy: Allusion in Maryse Condé’s ‘hérémakhonon’” in Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, ed. Carole Boyce Davies, Elaine Savory Fido (Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 1990): 303–319; Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 2001); Robin Cohen, ‘Diaspora’: Beyond the Jewish Experience (Cape Town: Jacob Gitlin Library, Western Province Zionist Council, 2003).
15	Greg Egan, Diaspora (Brno: Návrat, 2005).
16	Kevin Kenny, Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford UP, 2013).
17	Hortense J. Spillers, Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text (New York: Routledge, 1991): 40–60, 42.
18	Stanley Eugene Fish, Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980): 147–174.
19	Ernst Käsemann, Exegetische Versuche und Besinnungen 2.2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1964): 82–104.
20	Northrop Frye, The Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1957): 76
21	Ernest G. Bormann, “Symbolic Convergence: Organizational Communication and Culture,” in Communication and Organizations, an Interpretive Approach, ed. Linda Putnam, Michael E. Pacanowsky (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1983): 99–122, 100–106; Alaistar Iain Johnson, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1995): 160.
22	Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford UP, 1988).
23	The undisputed letters of Paul are: Romans 1–2, Corinthians, Galatians...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: Exploring the Interface of Diaspora, Law and Literature
• Diaspora, the West and the Law
• Towards a Grammar of the Multiverse
• Close Encounters of the ‘Third’ Kind
• Fair Hearing and Fair Play in Multicultural Societies
• Critical Subjects of Belonging
• Theorizing Reflexivity in Literature, Law and Diaspora
• Overlapping Sovereignties
• The Old Armenian Lawcode of Lemberg
• The Diaspora of the Imaginary in Politics and Poetics
• Cultural Mobility and Diaspora: The Case of Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock
• Cultural Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
• Diasporic Fragments Coalescing: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
• The Indian Diaspora and Laws
• Articulations Across Diaspora, Law and Literature
• Queer Diasporas? Literary Diaspora Studies and the Law
• Unaccustomed Earth: Diaspora on the Developing Reel
• Melancholic Face-Off: Caryl Phillips’ Elegy over David Oluwale
• Contributors
• Index of names
• Endnotes