期刊名称：Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures & Societies
印刷版ISSN：1948-1845
电子版ISSN：1948-1853
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：3
出版社：Wright State University
摘要：The Special Issue Critical Spaces of Diaspora for Liquid Post-modernity provides a thinking-space of us invariably interested in the evolving spaces of Post-colonial and Cultural Studies. The theme signposts several avenues around diasporic literature aiming to address the contemporary stance of knowledge production within a broader sense of critical thought and epistemology. It also aims to address several sub themes regarding the current postmodernist stance and condition through branching out the theoretical scope of diaspora and literary studies. The papers included in this issue offer a capacious range for empirical and theoretical engagements with notions pertaining to what have become among the most contestable concepts of our times: post-modernity, post-coloniality, and liquidity (after Bauman, (2000)). Additionally, the literature of Diasporas, which has been an offshoot of diasporic experience, mounts up as the major source of empirical knowledge in this collection alongside with these theories and concepts. The assumption is that, for long, literature has been an integral part of post-colonial and diasporic experience which appears to be instrumental to our study of societies, cultures, historical momentum, and above all the critical discourses we sanctify to understand the human conditions.
