List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Homeland-Diaspora Imaginations and the Roots of Their Mutual Attraction; 1. Separation: Songs of Departure; 2. Mediating Absence in Homeland; 3. Constructing Longing in Diaspora; 4. Enveloping Distance; 5. Imagining Kinship in Diaspora; 6. Homecoming; 7. Into the Twenty-First Century; Epilogue: The Folk Connection; Notes; Index