Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity (Philosophy and the Global Context) - Softcover

Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu

 
9780742513617: Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity (Philosophy and the Global Context)

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In Yesterday's Self, Andreea Ritivoi explores the philosophical and historical dimensions of nostalgia in the lives of immigrants, forging a connection between current trends in the philosophy of identity and intercultural studies. The book considers such questions as, Does attachment to one's native culture preclude or merely influence adaptation into a new culture? Do we fashion our identity in interdependence with others, or do we shape it in a non-contingent frame? Is it possible to assimilate in an unfamiliar world without risking self-alienation? Ritivoi's response: nostalgia is both the poison and the cure in such situations.

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Andreea Deciu Ritivoi is assistant professor of English and rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. She has previously published The Tale of a Lost City: Demolished Homes in Bucharest and The Other as Myself: Essays on Personal Identity.

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9780742513600: Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity (Philosophy and the Global Context)

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ISBN 10:  0742513602 ISBN 13:  9780742513600
Verlag: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD, 2002
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