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On Belonging and Not Belonging
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ISBN: 9780691231662 0691231664 9780691212388 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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"On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range of artistic works. From the possibilities and limitations of translation addressed by Jhumpa Lahiri and David Malouf to the effects of shifting borders in the writings of Eugenio Montale, W. G. Sebald, Colm Tóibín, and many others, esteemed literary critic Mary Jacobus looks at the ways novelists, poets, photographers, and filmmakers revise narratives of language, identity, and exile. Jacobus's attentive readings of texts and images seek to answer the question: What does it mean to identify as-or with-an outsider? Walls and border-crossings, nomadic wanderings and Alpine walking, the urge to travel and the yearning for home-Jacobus braids together such threads in disparate times and geographies. She plumbs the experiences of Ovid in exile, Frankenstein's outcast Being, Elizabeth Bishop in Nova Scotia and Brazil, Walter Benjamin's Berlin childhood, and Sophocles's Antigone in the wilderness. Throughout, Jacobus trains her eye on issues of transformation and translocation; the traumas of partings, journeys, and returns; and confrontations with memory and the past. Focusing on human conditions both modern and timeless, On Belonging and Not Belonging offers a unique consideration of inclusion and exclusion in our world"-- "A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita Dean"--

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Translating and interpreting. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Aeneid. --- Alterity. --- Ambiguity. --- An Imaginary Life. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Anxiety. --- Aphorism. --- Artifice. --- Authoritarianism. --- Barbarian. --- Bildungsroman. --- Boredom. --- Circumstantial evidence. --- Civil disobedience. --- Contradiction. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Cruelty. --- Dasein. --- Death. --- Delusion. --- Demagogue. --- Deportation. --- Disfigurement. --- Duress. --- Dusty Answer. --- Elegy. --- Enemy of the people. --- Enemy of the state. --- Essay. --- Etymology. --- Exile. --- Existential crisis. --- Fatalism. --- Foreign language. --- Forgetting. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Homesickness. --- Hostility. --- Impiety. --- In Another Country. --- Indirect speech. --- Infinite regress. --- Internment. --- Irony. --- Irrationality. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Kitsch. --- Lament. --- Land of Darkness. --- Limite. --- Loss and Gain. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Memoir. --- Mourning. --- Muteness. --- Narrative. --- Neglect. --- No man's land. --- Nonperson. --- Nonviolent resistance. --- Obscenity. --- Obsolescence. --- Oppression. --- Palinurus. --- Pathos. --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Poetry. --- Political dissent. --- Precarity. --- Prejudice. --- Refugee. --- Repressed memory. --- Right of asylum. --- Scrap. --- Self-destructive behavior. --- Shame. --- Slavery. --- Social rejection. --- Solecism. --- Sophocles. --- State of exception. --- Statelessness. --- Surrealism. --- Tearing. --- The Unwritten. --- To the Contrary. --- Torture. --- Toward the Unknown. --- Tragedy. --- Tristia. --- Unpacking. --- Untranslatability. --- V. --- Vulnerability. --- Walser. --- Waste. --- Wrinkle. --- Writing. --- Translating and interpreting --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature --- Other (Philosophy) in literature


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No man's land
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ISBN: 1283163845 9786613163844 1400840023 0691102686 0691160155 9781400840021 9780691102689 9780691160153 9781283163842 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered compromise between employers who wanted foreign workers and those who feared rising numbers of immigrants. Unlike immigrants, guestworkers couldn't settle, bring their families, or become citizens, and they had few rights. Indeed, instead of creating a manageable form of migration, guestworker programs created an especially vulnerable class of labor. Based on a vast array of sources from U.S., Jamaican, and English archives, as well as interviews, No Man's Land tells the history of the American "H2" program, the world's second oldest guestworker program. Since World War II, the H2 program has brought hundreds of thousands of mostly Jamaican men to the United States to do some of the nation's dirtiest and most dangerous farmwork for some of its biggest and most powerful agricultural corporations, companies that had the power to import and deport workers from abroad. Jamaican guestworkers occupied a no man's land between nations, protected neither by their home government nor by the United States. The workers complained, went on strike, and sued their employers in class action lawsuits, but their protests had little impact because they could be repatriated and replaced in a matter of hours. No Man's Land puts Jamaican guestworkers' experiences in the context of the global history of this fast-growing and perilous form of labor migration.

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Foreign workers --- Foreign workers. --- Deportation. --- Deportation --- Expulsion --- Alien labor --- Aliens --- Foreign labor --- Guest workers --- Guestworkers --- Immigrant labor --- Immigrant workers --- Migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Law and legislation --- Employment --- Jamaica --- Jamaïque --- G'amaiḳah --- Xaymaca --- Jamaika (Country) --- Ямайкэ --- I︠A︡maĭkė --- جامايكا --- Jāmāyikā --- Chamaica --- J·amayica --- Xamaica --- Xamayka --- Yamayka --- Ямайка --- I︠A︡maĭka --- Yamaika --- Jamajka --- Джамайка --- Dzhamaĭka --- Tschameeki --- Jaméíkʼa --- Τζαμάικα --- Tzamaika --- Emigration and immigration. --- Emigration and immigration law --- Asylum, Right of --- Extradition --- Refoulement --- Employees --- ジャマイカ --- West Indies (Federation) --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- 1980s. --- Bahamian workers. --- Caribbean guestworker programs. --- Caribbean guestworkers. --- Cuban Revolution. --- Emergency Farm Labor Importation Program. --- Florida Rural Legal Services. --- Florida. --- Great Depression. --- H2 program. --- IRCA. --- Immigration Reform and Control Act. --- Jamaican guestworkers. --- Jim Crow. --- Leaford Williams. --- Luther L. Chandler. --- Lyndon B. Johnson. --- Mexican guestworker programs. --- New Deal. --- U.S. South. --- U.S. farmworker programme. --- U.S. guestworker programs. --- UFW. --- United Farm Workers of America. --- War on Poverty. --- World War II. --- agricultural exceptionalism. --- agriculture. --- alien farmworkers. --- alien negro laborers. --- anti-immigrant sentiments. --- authorized guestworker programs. --- cane cutters. --- deportation. --- domestic workers. --- farm employers. --- farm labor. --- female guestworkers. --- foreign labor. --- foreign workers. --- guestworker advocacy. --- guestworker program. --- guestworker programs. --- guestworkers. --- illegal immigration. --- immigrant workers. --- immigrants. --- immigration reform legislation. --- immigration restrictions. --- immigration. --- international migrants. --- international migration. --- labor discipline. --- labor laws. --- labor migrants. --- labor migration. --- labor recruitment scheme. --- labor recruitment. --- labor scarcity. --- labor standards. --- labor supply schemes. --- labor supply systems. --- managed migration. --- mass strikes. --- migration. --- nationalism. --- no man's land. --- poor working conditions. --- postwar America. --- rebellion. --- reform programs. --- state involvement. --- sugarcane company. --- temporary immigration schemes. --- unregulated migration. --- war workers. --- Noncitizen labor --- Noncitizens --- Noncitizens. --- Enemy aliens --- Expatriates --- Foreign population --- Foreign residents --- Foreigners --- Illegal aliens --- Illegal immigrants --- Non-citizens --- Resident aliens --- Unauthorized immigrants --- Undocumented aliens --- Undocumented immigrants --- Unnaturalized foreign residents --- Persons --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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