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Contemporary Women's Writing 2009 3(1):28-46; doi:10.1093/cww/vpp005
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Resident Aliens: Diasporic Women's Writing

Sneja Gunew

University of British Columbia, Canada cfis.gunew@ubc.ca

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

"Remember, it's an in-between space. Neither here nor there. It is dangerous."

(Badami 110)

Always becoming, will never be

Always arriving, must never land

Between back home and home unfathomable, is me –

By definition: immigrant

(Mootoo, "Mantra for Migrants")

"And now," Tsunami went on, "what about Sinhala being declared the official language? Isn't that discrimination against everyone who doesn't speak and write Sinhala? Tamils? Muslims? Burghers – everyone who communicates in English. When you practise wholesale discrimination against people, the result is war."

(Gooneratne, The Sweet and Simple Kind 312)


   The Dubious Consolations of Diaspora Criticism
 
Diaspora criticism is based on the promise of situating the deceptive stability of nation-states in relation to the minor and major migrations that have punctuated recent history. These dynamics have been complicated further by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Politics of Location: Here as Much as There
 

   Revising Unhomely Histories
 

   Reviewing the Homeland after Diaspora
 

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