Exile and return among the East Timorese / Amanda Wise.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary ethnographyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0812239091
- 9780812239096
- 959.87032 22
- HV640.5.E19 W57 2006
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 959.87032 WIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A398909B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
Introduction : "we can't hang Xanana there!" : on the politics of representing community -- 1. East Timor : a history of the present -- 2. Leaving the crocodile : the East Timorese community in Sydney -- 3. Nation, transnation, diaspora : locating East Timorese long distance nationalism -- 4. Embodying exile : embodied memory and the role of trauma, affect, politics, and religion in the formation of identities in exile -- 5. Locating East Timoreseness in Australia : layers of hybridity, anchored and enmeshed -- 6. From exile to diaspora? : on identity, belonging, and the (im)possibility of return home -- 7. Conclusion : independence day : looking to the future -- Afterword : January 2005.
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