Ex-centric narratives ; identity, multivocality, and cross-culturalism2012

"Drawing on North American, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies, the volume proposed here addresses the construction of identity in relation to place(s), ethnicities and culture(s), and sets out to explore the ambivalences, fluctuations and modalities which highlight such a process while paving the path for the fashioning of global identities. Moreover, it presents the identity politics and poetics of diverse authors and artists in an attempt to recover the discursive techniques employed in their identification processes and assess the significance of cultural agency in a national, multinational and global context. The American context of today is the jumping off point for a global discussion of identity and cultural change that speaks to the emergence of the 2nd and 3rd world as new cultural and...