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Exile and return among the East Timorese / Amanda Wise.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary ethnographyPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0812239091
  • 9780812239096
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.87032 22
LOC classification:
  • HV640.5.E19 W57 2006
Contents:
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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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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