Georges Woke Up Laughing Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
- Publish date: 12/01/2001
Description:
Acknowledgments ix 1. "At First I Was Laughing" 1 2. Long-Distance Nationalism Defined 17 3. Delivering the Commission: The Return of the Native 36 4. "Without Them, I Would Not Be Here": Transnational Kinship 58 5. "The Blood Remains Haitian": Race, Nation, and Belonging in the Transmigrant Experience 92 6. "She Tried to Reclaim Me": Gendered Long-Distance Nationalism 130 7. The Generation of Identity: The Long-Distance Nationalism of the Second Generation 155 8. "The Responsible State": Dialogues of a Transborder Citizenry 178 9. The Apparent State: Sovereignty and the State of U.S.-Haitian Relations 208 10. Long-Distance Nationalism as a Debate: Shared Symbols and Disparate Messages 238 11. The Other Side of the Two-Way Street: Long-Distance Nationalism as a Subaltern Agenda 258 Notes 275 Bibliography 298 Index 314
Expand description
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Please Wait