The World in Movement: Performative Identities and Diasporas

This book focuses on one of the main issues of our time in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it analyzes the impact of current global migrations on new forms of living together and the formation of identities and homes. Using a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach the contributions shed fresh light upon key concepts such as ’hybrid-performative diaspora’, ’transidentities’, ’ hospitality’, ’belonging’, ’emotion’, ’body, ’ and ’desire’. Those concepts are discussed in the context of Cuban, US-American, Maghrebian, Moroccan, Spanish, Catalan, French, Turkish, Jewish, Argentinian, Indian, and Italian literatures, cultures and religions.

Alfonso de Toro is professor emeritus of Romances Studies and director of the Ibero-American and Francophone Research Centres at Leipzig University and of the book series Transversalité (L’Harmattan), Theory and Critic of Literature and Culture, Theory and Praxis of the Theatre and Passages (Olms). Juliane Tauchnitz, Ph.D., Leipzig University, is research assistant for Francophone and Hispanophone literatures and cultures. She is co-director of the Francophone Research Center at Leipzig University and of the book series Transversalité (L’Harmattan) and Passages (Olms).