Diaspora, Law and Literature

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Diaspora Studies have emerged to study the changing patterns of global migration and home making. This volume offers new perspectives on this highly relevant field of research by integrating both legal and literary aspects, questions and methodologies in the study of diasporas and migration. 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 Fabian Wittreck 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