Re-inventing/Re-presenting Identities in a Global World

Edited By: Eleftheria Arapoglu, Tatiani Rapatzikou, Smatie Yemenedzi-Malathouni

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With the peripheral now the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural identity in a global world. It addresses immigration, diaspora, and gender politics, exploring cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.

Re-inventing/Re-presenting Identities in a Global World is a collection of twelve selected essays which address the concepts of cultural identity formation and enactment, immigration, diaspora…

Re-inventing/Re-presenting Identities in a Global World is a collection of twelve selected essays which address the concepts of cultural identity formation and enactment, immigration, diaspora and repatriation, and gender politics within a globalized context. With the peripheral having now become the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural and literary diversities that have emerged from the reciprocal traffic of ideas and influences between cultures, politics, aesthetics and disciplines, with an emphasis on cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.

Written in an accessible way, this volume addresses several audiences, from postgraduate researchers and scholars in the fields of Anglo-American and cross-cultural studies, women’s studies, minority and ethnic literature studies, to scholars, students and specialists of American, cross-Atlantic and even global studies. Because of the numerous theoretical concerns which underpin this work and its interdisciplinary approach, the publication is also aimed at researchers and scholars in the fields of trans-atlantic studies and cultural geography, as well as the general reader who is interested in globality and cultural identity.

Smatie Yemenedzi-Malathouni is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture in the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her main publications are in Puritan American Literature and she is the co-editor of Θουκιδίδης: Ιστορίαι: Πελοποννησιακός Πόλεμος. Βιβλίο Θ. Εισαγωγή-Μετάφραση-Σχόλια [Thucydides: Historiae: The Peloponnesian War. Βοοk VIII. Introduction-Translation-Commentary] (2011).

Tatiani G. Rapatzikou is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture in the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the editor of Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism (2007) and H Αμερικανική Ποίηση στην Ελλάδα [American Poetry in Greece] (2006) as well as the author of Gothic Motifs in the Fiction of William Gibson (2004).

Eleftheria Arapoglou works as Lecturer at the Department of English of the University of California at Davis, USA. Her book A Bridge Over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of “Women’s Orients” (2011) is published by Gorgias Press and she has co-edited two volumes—Transcultural Localisms (2006) and [City in (Culture] in City) (2005).