Cultural Politics of the Diaspora

Contemporary academic, public and political discourses have invoked the notion of diasporicity to explore questions of migration, belonging, nationality, periphery, and community, all connected to what could be called the diasporic turn. Basing their observation on the Moroccan Jewish diaspora in Israel, the authors call for further evaluating the cultural aspect of the post-diaspora moment, which is evident in music, poetics, images, and sense of selfhood. By looking at specific acts of “return” to the homeland/hostland, they suggest that contemporary observers ought to think more in terms of a “diasporic return.”