Table Of Contents:
preface arrivals and departures vii(6)

Homi K. Bhabha
acknowledgments xiii
introduction

1. framing exile: from homeland to homepage 1(16)

Hamid Naficy
part one: traveling concepts 17(28)

2. exile, nomadism, and diaspora: the stakes of mobility in the western canon 17(28)

John Durham Peters
part two: synesthetic homing 45(52)

3. "is any body home?": embodied imagination and visible evictions 45(18)

Vivian Sobchack

4. home: smell, taste, posture, gleam 63(12)

Margaret Morse

5. the intolerable gift: residues and traces of a journey 75(10)

Teshome H. Gabriel

6. the key to the house 85(12)

Patricia Seed
part three: cinematic modes of production 97(54)

7. ethnicity, authenticity, and exile: a counterfeit trade? german filmmakers and hollywood 97(28)

Thomas Elsaesser

8. between rocks and hard places: the interstitial mode of production in exilic cinema 125(26)

Hamid Naficy
part four: mediated collective formations 151(82)

9. bounded realms: household, family, community, and nation 151(18)

David Morley

10. recycling colonialist fantasies on the texas borderlands 169(24)

Rosa Linda Fregoso

11. "home is where the hatred is": work, music, and the transnational economy 193(20)

George Lipsitz

12. by the bitstream of babylon: cyberfrontiers and diasporic vistas 213(20)

Ella Shohat
notes on contributors 233(4)
index 237