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Author Joseph, May

Title Nomadic identities : the performance of citizenship / May Joseph
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 177 pages)
Series Public worlds ; v. 5
Public worlds ; v. 5.
Contents Acknowledgments; 1 The Performance of Citizenship; 2 Citizen Nyerere; 3 Ujamaa and Soul; 4 Kung Fu Cinema and Frugality; 5 Nomadic Citizenship; 6 Staging the Postcolony; 7 Bodies outside the State; 8 The Scream of Sycorax; 9 Transnational Migrations; 10 Postnational Reverberations; Notes; Index
Summary In a modern world of vast migrations and relocations, the rights--and rites--of citizenship are increasingly perplexing, and ever more important. Kung Fu cinema, soul music, plays, and speeches are some of the media May Joseph considers as expressive negotiations for legal and cultural citizenship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Citizenship.
Ethnic groups -- Political activity
Immigrants -- Political activity
Minorities -- Political activity.
Political participation.
PERFORMING ARTS -- General.
Citizenship.
Ethnic groups -- Political activity.
Immigrants -- Political activity.
Minorities -- Political activity.
Political participation.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816686629
0816686629