TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES AND IMAGINARY LANDS

Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost

Victoria Cook, in "Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost," addresses issues of identity raised in the narrative of Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost. Cook's paper is a close analysis of Ondaatje's novel, paying particular attention to the way in which Ondaatje examines identity as both a "construct" and a "process." The approach used is one that draws on postcolonial...

Transnational Identities in Diaspora Writing : The Narratives of Vasily Yanovsky

The study of Russian émigré writing has been a vibrant academic fi eld for almost three decades, yet the dominant critical reception of these texts remains today suff used with the glasnost-era rhetoric of a “grand return”: the diaspora is described in terms of a “branch” or “tributary” destined to merge with twentieth-century Russian literature of the homeland.1 Émigré writers are routinely co...

A sociophonetic study of VOT and Polish transnational identities in the UK: Some preliminary results

This paper examines Voice Onset Time (VOT) of Polish voiceless stops in natural speech of members of the Polish transnational community in the United Kingdom. The results presented here are part of a larger sociophonetic project and suggest that aspirated voiceless plosives in Polish, characterized by longer mean VOTs, are associated with a cosmopolitan transnational identity. In contrast, shor...

Transnational Identities and Religious Traditions: A Case of Religious Double Belonging in India

Dry Lands and Desertification