Connecting HistoriesFirst published in 2006. The dynamics of ethnicity, diaspora, identity and community are the defining features of contemporary life, giving rise to important and exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study and literature on subjects that were previously seen as the exclusive domain of the social sciences. Connecting Histories is an important contribution to this trend. While using sociological and anthropological theories, its is an innovative historical and comparative assessment of ethnic identities and memories. Romain focuses on Afro-Caribbean and Jewish individuals and groups, investigating the ways in which 'communities' remember their experiences. |
Contents
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Myths of Migration in Jewish African and AfricanCaribbean Narrative the Mother Country and the Promised Land | 45 |
Blacks Jews and Diasporic Consciousness in the Autobiographical Act | 109 |
III Hidden Histories Collective Memory Remembering and Forgetting in Black and Jewish Ethnic Memory | 167 |
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