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Urban Children Distress

By: Cristina Szanton Blanc

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This book describes how deprived urban children and their families and communities try to cope with scarcity, neglect and discrimination. It communicates the smell, the sweat, the agonies and the occasional triumphs of the poor in their day-to-day struggle for a rightful share of human dignity.

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1000141195

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Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

By: Linda Basch,Nina Glick Schiller,Cristina Szanton Blanc

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Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

By: Linda Basch,Nina Glick Schiller,Cristina Szanton Blanc

Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and of nationhood itself.

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1000159264

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Peruvian Lives across Borders

Power, Exclusion, and Home

By: M. Cristina Alcalde

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Peruvian Lives across Borders

Power, Exclusion, and Home

By: M. Cristina Alcalde

In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of return—whether desired or rejected, imagined or physical—spurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home. Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050517

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9780252050510

Walk the Barrio

The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature

By: Cristina Rodriguez

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Walk the Barrio

The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature

By: Cristina Rodriguez

Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place. Building on this self-evident premise, Walk the Barrio adds the less obvious claim that to write about place you must experience place. Thus, in this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks neighborhood streets, talks to immigrants, interviews authors, and puts herself physically in the spaces that she seeks to understand. The word barrio first entered the English lexicon in 1833 and has since become a commonplace not only of American speech but of our literary imagination. Indeed, what draws Rodriguez to the barrios of Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and others is the work of literature that was fueled and inspired by those neighborhoods. Walk the Barrio explores the ways in which authors William Archila, Richard Blanco, Angie Cruz, Junot Díaz, Salvador Plascencia, Héctor Tobar, and Helena María Viramontes use their U.S. hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration. Asking how these writers innovate upon or break the rules of genre to render in words an embodied experience of the barrio, Rodriguez considers, for example, how the spatial map of New Brunswick impacts the mobility of Díaz’s female characters, or how graffiti influences the aesthetics of Viramontes’s novels. By mapping each text’s fictional setting upon the actual spaces it references in what she calls "barriographies," Rodriguez reveals connections between place, narrative form, and migrancy. This first-person, interdisciplinary approach presents an innovative model for literary studies as it sheds important light on the ways in which transnationalism transforms the culture of each Latinx barrio, effecting shifts in gender roles, the construction of the family, definitions of social normativity, and racial, ethnic, national, and linguistic identifications.

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389

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University of Virginia Press

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081394807X

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9780813948072

John of God

The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing

By: Cristina Rocha

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John of God

The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing

By: Cristina Rocha

This book investigates the growing number of Western followers of John of God, a faith healer who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people, including Oprah Winfrey, to his healing center in Brazil by purportedly performing miraculous surgeries on people with a kitchen knife and no anesthetics. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork throughout Brazil, the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, Cristina Rocha examines the social and cultural forces that have made it possible for an illiterate, mostly unknown faith healer in Brazil to become a global "guru" of the 21st century.

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Oxford University Press

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0190466715

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9780190466718

Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile

Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, and V.S. Naipaul

By: Cristina Emanuela Dascalu

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Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile

Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, and V.S. Naipaul

By: Cristina Emanuela Dascalu

The effects of the displacement of peoples--their forced migration, their deportation, their voluntary emigration, their movement to new lands where they made themselves masters over others, or became subjects of the masters of their new homes--reverberate down the years and are still felt today. The historical violence of the era of empire and colonies echoes in the literature of the descendants of those forcibly moved and the exiles that those processes have made. The voices of its victims are insistent in the literature that has come to be called “post-colonial.” Although the term “post-colonial” is insufficient to capture fully the depth and breadth of those writers that have been labeled by it (for it is itself something of a colonial instrument, ghettoizing writers in English who are still considered to be “foreign”), there is a common bond among the works of those novelists who understand the process of exile and see themselves as exiles--both from their homes and from themselves. In this eloquently argued book with meticulous theoretical groundwork, Dr. Cristina Dascalu presents a most lucid and concise examination of exile. In addition to her negotiation of the term “exile,” what is most original and significant about Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile is the selection of authors. Reaching across national (in terms of country of exile) and ethnic (in terms of region/religion of birth) boundaries, Dr. Dascalu elegantly shows the persistent relevance of the experience and implications of exile to the writing of fiction in the world today. Rushdie, Mukherjee, and Naipaul are very distinct authors whose works are not often discussed together in this context. Using Benedict Anderson’s notion of “unimagined communities,” among other critical lenses, she makes significant connections between the way exile functions as a theme and as a condition for their writing."--pub. desc.

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Cambria Press

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1934043737

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9781934043738

Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

By: Linda Basch,Nina Glick Schiller,Cristina Szanton Blanc

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Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

By: Linda Basch,Nina Glick Schiller,Cristina Szanton Blanc

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Urban Children Distress

By: Cristina Szanton Blanc

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Urban Children in Distress

Global Predicaments and Innovative Strategies

By: Cristina Szanton Blanc,Blanc

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Global Predicaments and Innovative Strategies

By: Cristina Szanton Blanc,Blanc

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Urban Children Distress

Urban Children Distress

Nations Unbound

Nations Unbound

Peruvian Lives across Borders

Peruvian Lives across Borders

Walk the Barrio

Walk the Barrio

John of God

John of God

Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile

Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile

Nations Unbound

Nations Unbound

Urban Children Distress

Urban Children Distress

Urban Children in Distress

Urban Children in Distress

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