Issues of transnationalism in literature: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Words by Tonje Beisland The islands in the Caribbean saw their population numbers increase with rapid speed after 1945. Fuelled by issues of overpopulation and supply for labour elsewhere, migration to other corners of the world became common (Higman 2010, p. 275). In the United States, Dominicans have become the largest Latino group in New …

A Crash Course in Nation Theory: Spotting Primordialist and Modernist dialogues in national discussions

Words by Giovanna Demopoulos In a time when ‘nationalism’, however we define it and whatever we think of it, is indubitably on the rise it seems particularly important to know the basics of nation theory so that we can start keeping an eye out for various nationalist discourses in the material we read and expose …