This study investigates diasporic identity in Arab– American autobiographies. It particularly tackles the question of representation and its impact on projection individual self-perception accordance with different social contexts ideological leaning; it aims at explaining how contexts, that authors encounter experience, affect their own identity. The employs insights from autoethnography socio...

The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction Things Could Be Worse reflects the crisis of memory and understanding experienced by both first and second-generation Holocaust survivors within the diasporic space of contemporary Australia. It leads to issues of handling traumatic and transgenerational memory, the latter also known as postmemory (...

Recent linguistic landscape studies have increasingly underscored an online-offline agenda to understand the entanglement of people’s digital and physical lifeworlds. In this light, study concerns itself with diasporic space lived online by Chinese overseas students residing in UK during COVID, taking it as a nexus their experienced semiotic practiced landscaping. Drawing on research diaries in...

Given the putatively axiomatic connection between Irishness and Catholicism, it is not surprising that ubiquitous deathbed scene in Irish-American fiction imbricated with issue of ethnic identity. In romantic didactic fiction, scenes are just religiously coded, but also consolidate diasporic figurations Irishness. However, this article argues tradition only guise which feature fiction. As we sh...

Abstract This article examines the politics of cultural production in Kurdish diaspora Berlin and Stockholm. The paper argues that actors deploy various forms as a strategy to restore collective heritage identities achieve visibility for cause. Furthermore, serves promote universal solidarity particularistic agendas challenges oppressive policies ruling Turkish, Iranian Arab governments. Finall...

This article examines how the Rohingya diaspora employs social media platforms to reclaim their identity narratives through visibility and resistance in context of genocide subsequent prolonged displacement. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 displaced members activists Brisbane, Australia, this demonstrates transnational digital engagements foreground construction diaspora, subsequently...

In "Staging Famine Irish Memories of Migration and National Performance in Ireland and Québec" Jason King examines recent community theater productions about the Irish Famine migration to Québec in 1847. King explores community-based and national ideas of performance and the role of remembrance in shaping and transmitting the diasporic identities of Québec's Irish cultural minority. While most ...

Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth (2008) is a collection of short stories that explores the experiences immigrants and their descendants in United States, particularly those Bengali origin. This research paper critically examines diasporic discourse identity alienation work. Through close analysis selected from Earth, this delves into themes cultural displacement, search for identity, feeling ...

This paper explores the significance of collective narratives for a particular diasporic community. The analysis demonstrates that addressing is important not only to ensure understanding between old and new members, but also expand societal acceptance provide adequate formal assistance sub-ethnic communities. Kfarsghab community, whose members identify with Maronite village in Wadi Qadisha (Ho...