Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : diaspora and literary studies / Angela Naimou -- Displaced in diaspora? Jewish communities in the Greco-Roman world/ Erich S. Gruen -- Interoceanic relational diasporas : a Caribbean perspective / Supriya Nair -- The language of Lakay : diaspora as project and process in Haitian cultural production / Régine Jean- Régine Jean-Charles Charles -- The insufficiency of paradigms : diaspora in South Asian literature / Sangeeta Ray -- Lynchpins of sovereignty : forced removal and the deportspora imaginary / Mary Pat Brady -- Afro-futurist speculations and diaspora / Yogita Goyal -- The shock of relation : queer diasporas in law and literature / Mrinalini Chakravorty -- Strangers and brothers : James Baldwin's encounters with Africa / Laila Amine -- Incommensurability, inextricability, entanglement : Stuart Hall and the question of Palestine / Keith P. Feldman -- Radical Black poetics and south-South movement / Walt Hunter -- Remembering the uses of diaspora, or Palestine is still the issue / Anthony Alessandrini -- Refugee ecologies : narratives of water in Vietname diaspora / Marguerite Nguyen -- Diaspora and detention : Behrouz Boochani, Manus prison and genre son and genres of the borderscape / Jini Kim Watson -- Transpacific noir / Jinah Kim -- From nothing to something : Black speculative fiction and the Trayvon generation / Justin L. Mann Justin L. Mann -- Biological and narrative reproduction in the family-saga novels of Maryse Condé / Rachel L. Mordecai -- The embodied feminist futures of diaspora / Samantha Pinto -- Of origin and opportunity : co-narratives of refugitude in Roxane Gay's Ayiti / Lauren K. Alleyne Lauren K. Alleyne -- Arabic diasporic literary trajectories : reinvented magical realisms, biopolitical ruptures, and planetarity / Rita Sakr -- Decolonizing across borders : diasporic-indigenous indigenous encounters and the predicaments of arrival / Nadine Attewell.

"This volume provides fresh explorations of diaspora and its renewed critical edge for twenty-first century literary studies. It re-examines major diaspora origin stories, theorizes diaspora through its conceptual entanglements, and analyzes literary and visual cultural texts to reimagine the genres, gender, and genealogies of diaspora"--

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