Transnational identity and memory making in the lives of Iraqi women in diaspora /

"This book draws on an extensive archive of over one hundred oral narratives collected and recorded with Iraqi women in three settlement sites: Amman, Detroit, and Toronto. It demonstrates how the relationship between ethno-religious migrants, nation, and citizenship are shaped by the traumatic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Jones-Gailani, Nadia, 1982- (Author)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Series:Studies in gender and history ; 52.
Acceso en liña:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2570285
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Narrative, Memory, and Identity
  • Gendered Narratives of State: The Project for the Rewriting of History
  • Resisting the State: Shi'a, Chaldean, and Kurdish Women's Counter-narratives
  • Towards an Affective Methodology: Interviewer, Translator, Participant
  • Qahwa and Kleiche: Cookbooks, Coffee, and Conversation
  • Policing Women's Bodies in Diaspora: Toronto and Detroit in Comparative Context
  • Conclusion.