Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory (Paperback)

Preface
Introduction
Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller
1 Tangled Roots and New Genealogies
1. The Factness of Diaspora: The Social Sources of Genetic Genealogy
Alondra Nelson
2. Jews—Lost and Found: Genetic History and the Evidentiary Terrain of Recognition
Nadia Abu El-Haj
3. The Web and The Reunion: http://czernowitz.ehpes.com
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
4. Queering Roots, Queering Diaspora
Jarrod Hayes
5. Indigenous Australian Arts of Return: Mediating Perverse Archives
Rosanne Kennedy
2 Genres of Return
6. Memoirs of Return
Saidiya Hartman, Eva Hoffman, Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Nancy K. Miller
7. Return to Half-Ruins: Fathers and Daughters, Memory and History in Palestine
Lila Abu-Lughod
8. Singing with the Taxi Driver: From Bollywood to Babylon
Jay Prosser
9. Off-Modern Homecoming in Art and Theory
Svetlana Boym
10. Return to Nicaragua: The Aftermath of Hope
Susan Meiselas
3 Rights of Return
11. Between Two Returns
Amira Hass
12. Adoption and Return: Transnational Genealogies, Maternal Legacies
Margaret Homans
13. Foreign Correspondence
Sonali Thakkar
14. "O Give Me a Home"
Patricia J. Williams, with Images by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick
15. The Politics of Return: When Rights Become Rites
Elazar Barkan
4 Sites of Return and the New Tourism of Witness
16. Sites of Conscience: Lighting Up Dark Tourism
Liz Šev?enko
17. Kishinev Redux: Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony
Nancy K. Miller
18. Trauma as Durational Performance: A Return to Dark Sites
Diana Taylor
19. Pilgrimages, Reenactment, and Souvenirs: Modes of Memory Tourism
Marita Sturken
Contributors
Index