Diasporas of the Mind

"Diasporas of the Mind is a rare book: serious, critically imaginative and theoretically aware, it is incisive, thoughtful, detailed, well-written, with an astonishing intellectual hinterland. Centrally, it sets the contours for a series of new debates about post-War literature, cultural history and the history of ideas."—Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London ~Professor Robert Eaglestone

“Brian Cheyette's Diasporas of the Mind elegantly weaves together Jewish and postcolonial writers and thinkers to make new and unexpected links and illuminations.”—Professor Robert Eaglestone, THES, Book of the Year ~Professor Robert Eaglestone, THES

‘Bryan Cheyette’s rangy and authoritative new book not only takes a challenging look back at writers such as Rushdie and their imaginative claims to the territory of “migration, displacement”, but also tries to imagine a creative and political environment in which writers might turn the idea of “diaspora” into something active and specific, as opposed to the supposedly disengaged or cosmopolitan qualities with which it has sometimes been identified by its detractors of widely different ideological stamps. . . Diasporas of the Mind remains a major contribution to its field: a timely sometimes uncomfortable remapping of its intellectual territory.’—Bharat Tandon, TLS

 

~Bharat Tandon, TLS