The Past in Exile

The Past in Exile
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Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 3825897524
ISBN-13 : 9783825897529
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Book Synopsis The Past in Exile by : Birgit Bock-Luna

Download or read book The Past in Exile written by Birgit Bock-Luna and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of identity politics, memory and long-distance nationalism among Serbian migrants in California, the author examines the complicated ways in which visions of the past are used to form Diaspora subjects and make claims to the homeland in the present. Drawing on extended fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area community, she shows how the Yugoslav wars generated a revaluation Serbian history and personal life stories, resulting in the strengthening of ethnic identity. Nevertheless, strategies for dealing with rupture and change also included contestation of exile nationalism.

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