Transnational Migration between Homeland and Hostland
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Carmen Ghinea [1]
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[1] Spiru Haret University (Bucharest)
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- Localización: Border crossings: rethinking "trans-" in literature, language, and media: Faculty of Letters, Spiru Haret University & Macalester College Minnesota. International Conference May 17-18, 2017. Bucharest / coord. por Denisa Drǎgușin, David Martyn, Ruxandra Vasilescu, 2017, ISBN 978-88-97908-34-0, págs. 43-53
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The transnational dimension of an ethnic and cultural transformation such as migration, diaspora, displacement and relocation involve, turns the cultural interpretation process into an intricate significance. According to R. Cohen, “diaspora signified a collective trauma, a banishment, where one dreamed of home but lived in exile.” Postmodern scholarship regards diasporas as the models of the evaporation of all sorts of boundaries and borders and the flourishing of hybrid and fluid identities in the global era. Consequent to this understanding, “being here and there simultaneously”, “rootlessness”, “routes rather than roots”, “disputing the essentialist ethno-national identities that are associated to the nation states” are the reoccurring themes and emphases in this scholarship. Starting with Nina Glick Schiller’s position towards transnational as being “those persons who having migrated than one nation-stale to another live their lives across borders, participating simultaneously in social relations that embed them in more than one nation-state”, the paper argues for a transnational perspective as brought out by the literary creations of several Romanian writers and scholars living in America.
