Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women - in Diaspor

In exploring the intersections of memory, migration, and subjectivity, this book attempts to understand how Iraqi migrant women negotiate identity in diaspora.

List of contents

Introduction: Narrative, Memory, and Identity
1. Gendered Narratives of State: The "Project for the Rewriting of History"
2. Resisting the State: Shi’i, Chaldean, and Kurdish Women’s Counter-Narratives
3. Towards an Affective Methodology
4. Qahwa and Kleiche: Metaphor, Memory, and Meaning
5. Embodied and Political Subjectivities
Conclusion

About the author

By Nadia Jones-Gailani

Summary

In exploring the intersections of memory, migration, and subjectivity, this book attempts to understand how Iraqi migrant women negotiate identity in diaspora.

Product details

• Authors: Nadia Jones-Gailani, Nadia` Jones-Gailani
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781487503161
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0316-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Studies in Gender and History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories