Making a Home away from Home
Traveling Diasporas in María Escandón’s Esperanza’s Box of Saints
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12976633 |
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| Authors | Marc Priewe (0000-0002-0956-2873, University of Stuttgart, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Transnational American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-0764 • E-ISSN: 1940-0764 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5070/t842015732 |
| OpenAlex | W2766436919 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay was originally published in Amerikastudien/American Studies 51, no. 4 (2006): 581–93.Marc Priewe’s essay argues convincingly for a way of applying the term “diaspora” to Chicana/o cultural formations and consciousness by focusing on the transnational relations within the US that pervade Chicana/o life and are manifest in allegiances and nostalgias that transform ideas of ethnicity and place. Priewe’s analysis of Escandón’s text depicts how life in the “transnation” might be imagined. Echoing the language of Du Bois, Priewe examines the “zone of doubleness” and the “transnational gestalt” that characterize the experience of a living in or making a “home away from home.”
Art history · Consciousness · Diaspora · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Gestalt psychology · Sociology · Anthropology · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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