Exploring the dispersion of populations and cultures across many geographic regions and spheres, diaspora studies has emerged as a vibrant area of research amid rapidly increasing transnationalism and globalization. Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader presents in a single volume the most influential and critically well-received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies and contemporary theorizations of diaspora as a specific terrain within, and beyond, postcolonial studies.

Acknowledgments.Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points Of Contention In Diaspora Studies. (Jana Evans Braziel And Anita Mannur)Part I: Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora.1. Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy. (Arjun Appadurai)2. The Black Atlantic As A Counterculture Of Modernity. (Paul Gilroy)Additional Readings On Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora.Part II: Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora.3. Diaspora: Generational Ground Of Jewish Diaspora. (Daniel Boyarin And Jonathan Boyarin)4. Ethnicity In An Age Of Diaspora. (R. Radhakrishnan)5. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American Differences. (Lisa Lowe)Additional Readings On Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora.Part III: Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora.6. Against The Lures Of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women And Intellectual Hegemony. (Rey Chow)7. Returning(S): Relocating The Critical Feminist Auto-Ethnographer. (Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe)8. In The Shadows Of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics And The Diasporic Dilemma. (Martin F. Manalansan IV)Additional Readings In Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora.Part IV: Cultural Production And Diaspora.9. Cultural Identity And Diaspora Stuart Hall.10. Diaspora Culture And The Dialogic Imagination. (Kobena Mercer)11. Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities In Motion. (Gayatri Gopinath)Additional Readings On Cultural Production And Diaspora.Post-Script: Cyber-Scapes And The Interfacing Of Diaspora. (Anita Mannur)Additional Readings On Diaspora And Cyberelectronics.Selected Bibliography of Works on Diaspora (Anita Mannur)Index.