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The diaspora becomes an important cultural phenomenon in the formation of national identities and opposing attempts to transcend the idea of nationhood itself on its way to developing new forms of transnationalism. Chapters on the literature or national allegories of the diaspora and the transnational explore the diverse and geographically expansive ways in which Anglophone literature by colonized subjects and emigrants negotiates diasporic spaces to create imagined communities or a sense of home. Themes explored within these pages include restlessness, tensions, trauma, ambiguities, assimilation, estrangement, myth, nostalgia, sentimentality, homesickness, national schizophrenia, divided loyalties, intellectual capital, and geographical interstices. Special attention is paid to the complex ways identity is negotiated by immigrants to Anglophone countries writing in English about their home-abroad experience. The lived experiences of emigrants of the diaspora create a literature rife with tensions concerning identity, language, and belongingness in the struggle for home. Focusing on writers in particular geopolitical spaces, the essays in the collection offer an active conversation with leading theorizers of the diaspora and the transnational, including Edward Said, Bill Ashcroft, William Safran, Gabriel Sheffer, Stuart Hall, Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, and Benedict Anderson.
This volume cuts across the broad geopolitical space of the Anglophone world of literature and cultural studies and will appeal to professors, scholars, graduate, and undergraduate students in English, comparative literature, history, ethnic and race studies, diaspora studies, migration, and transnational studies. The volume will also be an indispensable aid to public policy experts.
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Jude V. Nixon is Professor of English at Salem State University, habilitated professor in the Polish Academy. His areas of teaching and research are Victorian literature and culture, and Caribbean literature. He has published extensively on the Victorians, especially on Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Dickens, appearing in journals such as “Victorian Poetry,” “Victorian Studies,” the “Carlyle Studies Annual”, the “Dickens Studies Annual,” “Times Literary Supplement,” the “Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Texas Study in Literature and Language, Modern Philology,” and “The Hopkins Quarterly.” Author/Editor of four books on Hopkins and Victorian science, culture, and religion, Professor Nixon is editor of the “Sermons and Spiritual Writings” (Oxford 2018). Professor Nixon servers on several editorial boards, among them “Victorian Poetry,” “The Hopkins Quarterly,” the “Dickens Studies Annual,” “MIND” (Poland), “Merope” (Italy), and “AngloSophia - Studies in English Literature and Culture” (Italy).
Mariaconcetta Costantini is Professor of English Literature at G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, and, from 2021, Visiting Professor at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK. Her areas of research and teaching are Victorian literature and culture, and postcolonial literature. She has published six monographs, articles, and book chapters. Her publications also include essays on contemporary fiction and Anglophone writers, with particular attention to African authors (Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, Dennis Brutus). She has explored different aspects of Okri’s oeuvre, given papers on him, and published articles, book chapters, and a monograph (“Behind the Mask. A Study of Ben Okri’s Fiction,” 2002). Professor Costantini serves on several editorial boards both in Italy and abroad, among them “Gothic Studies,” “The Hopkins Quarterly,” “Crime Fiction Studies,” “Italian Americana.” She is co-editor of the book series “AngloSophia. Studies in English Literature and Culture” and the online peer-reviewed journal “Victorian Popular Fictions.”
