Notion Of Homeland Research Articles

The “dispersed” market: trading vegetables in Bamberg’s vegetable-growing district

Based on field observations, interviews, personal websites and news publications, the article takes a detailed look at the trade in Bamberg vegetables in a traditional vegetable-growing district. I ask the following questions: why, despite logistical and transportation inconveniences, buying vegetables from the producer is in demand and popular in today’s Germany? what can the convenience of the supermarket be opposed to? and what can sellers who have grown their own produce offer the sophisticated resident of a wealthy German city? The collected field material shows that the sale/purchase of vegetables in the stalls of the “dispersed market” occupies a certain niche in the consumption culture of the city dwellers and realizes a specific, emotionally loaded purchasing experience, which speaks of the eventization of trade. This different experience of consumption is purposefully constructed as if it is rooted in tradition and referring to some idealized past and notions of homeland, as well as to the concept of urban authenticity.

Place, Belonging and History: Reflections on the Ottoman Armenian Past and Heritage

Vahé Tachjian is a historian and the author of numerous books and articles on Armenian survivors of the genocide and the genesis of post-genocide Armenian communities in the Middle East. Based in Berlin, he has since 2010 been the co-director and chief editor of Houshamadyan, a project aiming to revive the material and cultural life of Ottoman Armenians prior to and after the genocide. In this interview, he engages with the notion of homeland and reflects on its importance in his own work and diasporic experience.

MONIZA ALVI AS A DIASPORA POET

‘Diaspora’ refers to the dispersion of people from their homeland. It is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic scale. Diaspora Literature can be called works were written by authors who live outside native land. Diaspora writers are often preoccupied with the elements of nostalgia as they seek to locate themselves in the new culture. At the core of the concept of Diaspora lays the image of home. Home is a powerful notion in the study of Diaspora. Here, I have presented my study of the notion of Homeland in Diaspora and its elements. For that, I have taken poems of Moniza Alvi from her anthology “Split World: Poems (1990- 2005)”. Moniza Alvi is a Pakistani-British poet and writer. She was born in Pakistan and grew up in England. In some of her poems, she drew the image of Homeland, which has glimpses of nostalgia. The split world includes poems of five collections. Here, I have examined how Homeland reflects in Alvi’s poems and how she reconstructs home through poetry. Further, my conclusion is that the identity of Homeland has held onto those people living in host land and it reflects in their works.

Emociones y sentimientos patrióticos (1767-1828): Esbozo para un estudio de los patriotismos en el Río de la Plata

El objetivo de este artículo, parte de un trabajo más amplio ya en curso, es trazar el esbozo de un estudio en torno a las emociones y sentimientos patrióticos durante el ciclo revolucionario. Para ello, es preciso detectar y analizar las distintas patrias que circulaban en el período: estudiándolas, se pueden comprender mejor esos sentimientos porque ellos las construían y las patrias subsistían en ellos. Utilizaré el corpus lírico y dramático culto y de corte popular, y otras fuentes seleccionadas para el caso, atendiendo al zócalo del discurso, al modo de enunciación y a su tono, y ponderando la responsividad del discurso (Arfuch, 2002). También se analizan los aspectos y categorías fundamentales a tener en cuenta a la hora de estudiar emociones y sentimientos patrióticos, motores y guías de los patriotismos del período.

Una noción poética de la patria mexicana: Esther Tapia de Castellanos y la poesía nacionalista del siglo XIX

La obra poética de Esther Tapia de Castellanos es pieza clave para la comprensión de dos fenómenos culturales fundamentales en el proceso de construcción del proyecto nacional de los liberales mexicanos; desde la perspectiva del uso político de la literatura, contribuye a la configuración de un/otro sentido de Patria, pues sus poemas proponen imágenes femeninas que dotan de rostro y sentimiento a la idea de nación que procuraba asentarse por aquellos años; desde la representación puramente literaria, su poesía está llena de retratos del deber ser de la mujer mexicana. En la comunión de ambos aspectos la poesía de Esther Tapia es, al mismo tiempo, un ejercicio de aceptación de los roles tradicionalmente impuestos a la mujer y un acto subversivo en contra de éstos, si consideramos que la incursión de las mujeres en el ámbito de la creación literaria rebasa los límites del espacio cerrado e íntimo del hogar y se apropia de los escenarios públicos reservados al varón. En este trabajo proponemos un acercamiento a algunos poemas de Esther Tapia que se publicaron en la prensa del siglo XIX. Tomamos como punto de partida la noción de Patria para analizar, a partir de los mecanismos poéticos empleados, la forma en que se refracta el sujeto femenino en los textos de esta autora.***Uma noção poética da pátria mexicana: Esther Tapia de Castellanos e a poesia nacionalista do século XIX***O trabalho poético de Esther Tapia de Castellanos é fundamental para entender os fenômenos culturais fundamentais no processo de construção do projeto nacional dos liberais mexicanos; do ponto de vista do uso político da literatura, contribuindo para a configuração de outro sentido do país, seus poemas propõem imagens femininas que dançam e sentem a ideia de uma nação que procurou se sentar durante aqueles anos atrás; a partir da representação puramente literária, sua poesia é repleta de retratos do ser da mulher mexicana. Na comunhão de ambos os aspectos, a poesia de Esther Tapia é, ao mesmo tempo, um exercício de aceitação dos papéis tradicionalmente impostos às mulheres e um ato subversivo contra eles, se considerarmos que a incursão das mulheres no campo da a criação literária ultrapassa os limites do espaço íntimo e fechado do lar e se apropria dos cenários públicos reservados aos homens. Neste artigo, propomos uma abordagem de alguns poemas de Esther Tapia publicados na imprensa do século XIX. Tomamos como ponto de partida a noção de Pátria para analisar, a partir dos mecanismos poéticos utilizados, a maneira pela qual o sujeito feminino é refratado nos textos deste autor.Palavras-chave: imprensa. Literatura. Mulher. Pátria. Deve ser.

Mahmoud Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness: Redeeming Worldliness through Exilic Consciousness

ABSTRACTThis essay focuses on Mahmoud Darwish’s exilic experience as depicted in Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (1986). For Darwish, the siege of Beirut was a climactic moment in which he realized that he is stuck on a perpetual threshold. Imposed by the sovereign power, this exilic threshold characterizes the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon bereft of their rights as citizens and held outside their homeland and political domain. I wish to argue that, rather than being trapped in this condition, Darwish takes it as a vantage point to critically reconstruct the notions of homeland and political belonging. This involves a contrapuntal approach to the notions of homeland, diaspora, and memory, and acts as a form of resistance. It converts the exilic threshold that keeps the poet neither outside nor inside the political domain into a site of worldliness in both the Arendtian and Saidian sense of the term. Elaborating on Judith Butler’s account of cohabitation and diasporic thinking, I argue that the exilic condition Darwish describes can give rise to a political ethic that resists the homogenization of spaces and temporalities, and allows for an alternative sense of political belonging.

Home/Land Insecurity, Or, un Desmadre en Aztlán: Virginia Grise's blu

Neoliberal militarism relies on the gendered spaces of home and homeland to enable the spatial logic of national security and the sociospatial formation of militarized subjectivities. Set in a post-9/11 barrio, Virginia Grise's blu (2011) offers a critique of the militarization of Chicana/o communities. The play challenges the meaning of homeland by juxtaposing Aztlan, the mythic Aztec homeland, with the US homeland. blu critiques wartime nationalism and Chicano cultural nationalism by drawing parallels between patriarchal war cultures: the Aztecs, gangs, and the US military. By rewriting myth, it offers more emancipatory notions of homeland belonging.

Signs of Visual Resistance in Palestine: Unsettling the Settler-Colonial Matrix

This article contrasts historical and contemporary discourses and visualizations of the notions of Homeland, the Other and the Self that have been applied in the Zionist/Israeli project to colonize Palestine and displace its indigenous inhabitants. It actively connects theories of visual sociology and cultural studies (postmodern critical theory) with (1) various Israeli and Palestinian political discourses of Belonging (nationhood) while also (2) providing the reader with clear-cut, material examples of both exclusivist Zionist technologies of power and subaltern Palestinian techniques of counter-discourse, ultimately retracing historical continuity and unveiling resonant dialectics of modern nationalist doctrine across the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries throughout both Europe and the Middle East. Critically tracing and decoding the altering semiotic identity of a set of politicized posters highlights the key importance and the ongoing use of abstract power (discourse) within Israeli strategies of occupation and siege while simultaneously disclosing innovative Palestinian forms of visual resistance that advocate ‘existence’ in an asymmetric configuration of ‘conflict’. In order to interpret the selected visuals fully, one needs foremost to be acquainted with the interwoven ‘migration’ of populations, ideas, and praxes through both time and space.

Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora by Syrine Hout (review)

Syrine Hout. Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Florae Matters in the Diaspora. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012. Pp. 246. US$63.70. Syrine Hout identifies a new literary and cultural (11) in eleven works of fiction by six novelists from the Lebanese diasporas in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia: Rabih Alameddine and Patricia Sarrafian Ward (Lebanese American), Tony Hanania and Nathalie Abi-Ezzi (Lebanese British), Rawi Hage (Lebanese Canadian), and Nada Awar Jarrar (Lebanese Australian). All of these authors write in English about the civil war, their experiences of and exile. Hout reads their novels as illustrations of imaginative returns and argues that they manifest the idea of cultural hybridity only on the levels of languages, settings and themes, but most prominently in a state, or a predicament, of in-betweenness which reflects a complex consciousness characterised by mixed modes and moods, such as irony, parody, satire, and sentimentality (9). Hout divides her book into four parts according to the novels' protagonists' experiences of and exile. In Part I, each chapter compares a text with a nostophobic one. Chapter one contrasts Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of (1998) with Hanania's Unreal City (1999). The former is while the latter is of home. However, both define nation and not by political ideology but by an emotional reality (15), strongly influenced by the father-son relationship, that goes beyond the notion of homeland as nation. These texts reveal that exile and nation are not opposing realities but a state of cultural inbetweenness. Chapter two draws on Svetlana Boym's work on and Leo Spitzer's work on and discusses works that deal with questions of exile, diaspora, home, and identity from opposing angles. Alameddine's The Perv: Stories (1999) represents a sickness of home that is a result of both ironic nostalgia and critical memory (Hout 15); in contrast, Jarrar's Somewhere, Home (2003) symbolizes a homesickness that is a result offender nostalgia and nostalgic memory (Hout 15). Part II of Hout's text draws on trauma studies by writers such as Cathy Caruth and Anne Whitehead and compares Ward's The Bullet Collection (2003) with Alameddine's I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (2001). In Ward's novel, Marianna sees herself as fully Lebanese and cannot adjust to exile, whereas Sarah, a character in Alameddine's novel, is half American and finds herself in between homes. Although both novels represent the catastrophic effect of the civil war on its victims, The Bullet Collection is while I, the Divine is anti-nostalgic. The two authors were too young at the time to translate their fears and hopes into writing (Hout 12). Both, Hout argues, use conventions of trauma narrative such as indirection, fragmentation, and temporal disorientation. She observes that since young war survivors often want to remember the traumatic past while older ones tend to want to forget it, the texts provide an anti-amnesiac and generation-specific testimony to the long-term effects of the Lebanese Civil War (11). In Lebanon, Hout suggests, state-sponsored forgetfulness becomes a strategy to suppress political memory (2). By describing their traumatic war experiences, the authors go against the nation's trend of collective amnesia. …

A postmodern migrant subjectivity: Reading Italian-Canadian-ness, reading Breaking the Mould

This article ethnographically explores the ways in which members of an Italian studies book club in the small north-western Ontario (Canada) city of Thunder Bay express their migrant subjectivity by and through a discussion of Penny Petrone’s memoir, Breaking the Mould. It is framed within a postmodern framework that draws attention to how people engage with a local discourse of Italian-Canadian-ness grounded on notions of homeland, heritage culture, and selfhood and challenged by notions of gender, immigrant generational position, and socio-economic class. It draws attention to the problematic of identity and highlights how vexation, tension, contradiction, rupture, and contestation is part and parcel of an Italian-Canadian migrant subjectivity in Thunder Bay and part and parcel of migrant subjectivity more generally.

Ojczyzna w homiliach i przemówieniach Jana Pawła II wygłoszonych podczas pielgrzymek do Polski w latach 1979-1987

Homeland in John Paul II’s homilies and speeches given during the pilgrimages to Poland (1979‑ 1987)
 Although the place of the notion of homeland in John Paul II’s teaching has been studied in numerous publications, most of them adopted a theological perspective. However, it seems worthy to refer it also to reflections of lay researchers. The present analysis concentrates on Pope’s homilies and speeches given during three pilgrimages to Poland between 1979 and 1987. Thirty texts in which the word homeland appears have been taken into account. It turns out that John Paul II often alluded to visions of homeland fixed in the Polish culture. However, he did not share with his contemporaries the image of homeland with ethnicity, history and tradition in its centre. Homeland, in his vision, should not separate inhabitants of a country, but rather unite them. It should not induce to contemplate national triumphs and failures, but incite to look towards the future.

Istrian Italy and the homeland: The lessons of poetry

This article uses Eugenio Montale's poem ‘Dora Markus’ to reflect on considerable complications attending the concept of the patria vera, or the homeland, in borderland Italy. The geographical locales are Istria – the peninsula southeast of Trieste on the Adriatic coast – and Carinthia some distance to the north, where Italy meets Austria and Slovenia. Both places have been multiethnic and politically contested regions for centuries, changing political hands so frequently that they make a mockery of the very notion of homeland. This article considers historical, poetic, and linguistic knowledge to offset much of the nationalist, ideological rhetoric surrounding the two world wars.

House and home: A semantic stroll through metaphors and symbols

Cognitive linguistics has paid much attention to the role of metaphorical patterns in language and thought. Accordingly, this article offers a diachronical view of the role of the house and home metaphors in Jewish and Israeli literary and nonliterary texts. It offers a semantic as well as a sociocultural perspective on the emergence of, and shifts in, the extended symbolic and metaphorical notion of homeland (moledet) as home. Examining this theme in the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik, Avraham Shlonsky, Natan Alterman, and Lea Goldberg, the article points to the process of the fading of the collective home symbol and the emergence of the normal expectation for just a home in Israeli popular songs today, while showing how the dormant metaphor can be awakened and exploited in times of threat, as well as for commercial purposes.

Popular Religiosity and the Transnational Journey: Inscribing Filipino Identity in the Santo Niño Fiesta in New Zealand

Catholic diasporic populations often carry their icons and customary modes of devotion with them. Among New Zealand's secular society, some migrant communities display their religion publicly through processions, fiestas and festivals. The present article explores the role of religion in the Filipino diaspora. I focus on the celebration of the Cebuano Santo Niño–Sinulog fiesta in New Zealand and examine how Filipino cultural forms of expression connect and mix notions of homeland, family, home, sacred domain, identity and transnational settlement. By examining the fiesta and its structure of power relationships, I explore the metaphoric interface between two homes in the diasporic consciousness and the significant role of sacred symbols in aiding and facilitating the maintenance of imagined ‘Filipino’ identity in a foreign land.

Performing Identity: Musical Expression of Thai-Chinese in Contemporary Bangkok

The study of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia has mostly emphasized their impact on economic and political arenas. By privileging cultural practices as viable loci for investigation, this paper focuses on music as a site for the exploration of identity formation and notion of Chineseness. Based on ethnomusicological fieldwork conducted amongst Teochew-Chinese in Bangkok, this paper utilizes analysis of amateur Teochew music clubs to illustrate how identity, both cultural and political, is always a hybridized performance that is shaped as much by subjective interpretations of history and essentialized notions of homeland as by the politics of the historical moment.