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This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are "remapping" the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural "unbelonging" and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today's anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader "Americas," these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as "other" to the nation.

American literature --- Hispanic American women --- Hispanic Americans in literature. --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- National characteristics, Latin American, in literature. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social psychology --- Social integration --- Hispanic American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Intellectual life.

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"All the islands of the western Indian Ocean are immigrant societies: Austronesian seafarers, African slaves, Arab traders, South Asian indentured labourers and European plantation owners have all settled, more or less voluntarily, on Madagascar and Zanzibar, in the Mascarenes and the Comoros. Successive arrivals often struggle to establish their places in these societies, negotiating their way in the face of antipathy, resistance, even violence, as different claims to belonging conflict. The contributions to this volume take a selection of case studies from across the region, and from different perspectives, contributing to a theorisation of the concept of belonging itself. Contributors are Patrick Desplat, Franziska Fay, Marie-Aude Fouéré, Akbar Keshodkar, Hans Olsson, Gitanjali Pyndiah, Ramola Ramtohul, Iain Walker"--

Belonging (Social psychology) --- Immigrants --- History --- Social conditions --- Islands of the Indian Ocean --- Civilization. --- Emigration and immigration --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social psychology --- Social integration --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Indian Ocean Islands --- Sociology of environment --- Indian Ocean

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With a range of social, artistic, economic, political, and literary perspectives, the contributors provide a lively exploration of the tensions and opportunities of life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean.

Hellenism. --- Group identity --- Social isolation --- Hellénisme --- Identité collective --- Isolement social --- Greece --- Mediterranean Region --- Grèce --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- Hellenism --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Hellénisme --- Identité collective --- Grèce --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Exclusion, Social --- Isolation, Social --- Social exclusion --- Social psychology --- Alienation (Social psychology) --- Social distance --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social integration --- Belonging (Social psychology) - Mediterranean Region --- Social isolation - Mediterranean Region --- Greece - Civilization - To 146 B.C. --- Mediterranean Region - Civilization

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Higher education institutions continue to address an increasingly complex set of issues regarding equity, diversity and inclusion. Many institutions face increasing pressure to find innovative solutions to eliminate access, participation, and achievement barriers as well as practices that impede retention and graduation rates in higher education. This book provides educators with a global understanding of the challenges associated with the growing diversity of student identities in higher education and provides evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion at different higher education institutions around the world.

Educational equalization. --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Minority students --- Minorities --- Students --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social psychology --- Social integration --- Educational equality --- Educational equity --- Educational inequality --- Equal education --- Equal educational opportunity --- Equality of education --- Equalization, Educational --- Equity, Educational --- Inequality, Educational --- Opportunity, Equal educational --- Education --- Affirmative action programs in education --- Education (Higher) --- Ethnic identity. --- Aims and objectives --- Higher & further education, tertiary education. --- Higher.

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Writing Home explores the literary representation of Australian places by those who have walked them. In particular, it examines how Aboriginal and settler narratives of walking have shaped portrayals of Australia's Red Centre and consequently ideas of nation and belonging. Central Australia has long been characterised as a frontier, the supposed divide between black and white, ancient and modern. But persistently representing it in this way is preventing Australians from re-imagining this internationally significant region as home. Writing Home argues that the frontier no longer adequately describes Central Australia, and that the Aboriginal songlines make a significant but under-acknowledged contribution to Australian discourses of hybridity, belonging and home. Drawing on anthropology, cultural theory, journalism, politics and philosophy, the book traces shifting perceptions of Australian place and space since precolonial times, through six recounted walking journeys of the Red Centre.

Literature and society --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Aboriginal Australians --- Social life and customs. --- Central Australia --- Discovery and exploration. --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social psychology --- Social integration --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Central Australia, Australia --- Northern Territory