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Diaspora and Diasporic Imagination

Peter Blouw

Published: 2010-06-08

This article explores the term 'diaspora' by comparing the ideas of Vijay Mishra and Edward Said with those of Avtah Brah and Bill Ashcroft and his co-authors. It ultimately suggests that the narrative construction of diasporic communities -the 'diasporic imagination'- is also in some sense fundamentally improvisational.

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Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis