Symbolism 14 : [Special Focus - Symbols of Diaspora].

Symbolism -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword from the Editors -- Table of Contents -- Special Focus: Symbols of Diaspora -- Introduction: Symbols of Diaspora -- Tied to the Land: A SemioticChallenging of Terms Concerning Landas Used in Diaspora Discourse -- A Brief Introduction of Land-ed Terms -- Interrogating the Utility of 'Homeland' -- Examining the "Long Sojourn with a Host" -- A Turning Towards the Position of Landin Diaspora Studies -- Semiotics of Land -- Concluding in Landscapes -- Diasporic Memory and Narrativesof Spatiotemporality -- Anthropology and the Construction of Time -- Chronopolitics and Narratives of (Post-)Socialism -- Time-spaces and/as Stories -- Researching Diasporic Memorythrough Relational Spatiotemporalities -- Amy Ashwood Garvey and the PoliticalAesthetics of Diasporic Social Spaces inLondon -- Diasporic Social Spaces in the British Metropolis -- Diasporic Restaurants and Pan-Africanism -- Diasporic Community Centersand Anti-Racist Activism -- Conclusion -- The Symbolism of Emplacement andDisplacement in Sudanese British Fictionby Tayeb Salih and Leila Aboulela -- Roots in Origins -- Emplacement through Routes -- Conclusion -- Ain't I a Woman? A Mother? A Nation?'Woman' and 'Nation' in Pre- and Post-IndependenceIndia -- Conceptualizing the 'Nation' and 'Woman' -- Borders and 'the Doubly Other' -- Woman and Nation in Barbed Wire -- Conclusion -- Christmas in the Diaspora: DislocatingSymbols in Kipling, Cary and Dabydeen -- Nostalgic Christmas -- Symbolic Liberation -- Postcolonial Christmas -- Kipling Revisited -- Conclusion -- Two Stone Lions: Law, Home,and Diasporic Sovereignty -- Symbolic Re-enactment of a Travelling LegalOrder: Stone Lions and Sovereignty -- Home, Here? Here Is Home -- The Construction of a DiasporicUnsettled 'Settlement' -- Legal Order: Possessive Sovereignty.

In the Beginning there Was … InscribingSymbols of Sovereignty and the Myth of Origin -- Conclusion: Fragments of Dirtand the Consolation of Stone -- Oddity Magnified: In Search of Identityin Kazuo Ishiguro's When We WereOrphans -- Writing Her Own Story: Acculturation,Metatextuality and Symbolizing Queernessin Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight -- Symbols and Secrets: The Coming-Out Processes -- Community and Religion:The Mosque and the Wedding -- Re-writing the Grand Narrative: Leyla's Metatext -- Situating Sarif: A Spectrum of Possibility -- 'A Bootless Inquisition?' Searchingfor Imaginary Homelands in The Tempest -- Diasporic Subjects? -- Prospero and Miranda's Imaginary Homeland -- The Ending: A Return Home? -- General Section -- Discourses of Terror in Frenchand Spanish Novels after 9/11 -- Discourses of Terror in French-language Novelsafter September 11, 2001 -- Discourses of Terror in Spanish Novelsafter September 11, 2001 -- Conclusion -- William Earle's Novella: Obi, Obeahand the Ideological Work of Haunting -- Haunting Narratives and Narrative Voices -- The Reactionary, the Radical and the Spectral -- Earle's Work, Obi's Work, and the Projectof Revolution -- Dismemberment and the Ideological Workof Haunting -- A Great Good Place or Ghastly Pile?Representations of the English CountryHouse in Recent British Fiction:Metamorphosis of a Literary Motif -- A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden (1978) -- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1988) -- Graham Swift, Out of this World (1988) -- Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child (2011) -- Conclusion -- Book Reviews -- Contributors -- Index.