This projects looks at some of the subtleties in the environment of diaspora and the network that is built by the women who make them. By leaving their own mothers behind they give a new life to the daughters they bring into the world. These photos represent the small details of Iranian life that exists in homes away from home.The things that have traveled with people and the things people do t...

Migratory movements have been quite a popular phenomenon throughout history; People have moved between countries and continents seeking better opportunities and livelihoods. There has been a constant attempt to establish oneself across borders creating global spaces of existence and- with William Safran's 'characteristics of diaspora', Robin Cohen's 'Travelling Cultures,' to name a few- that ha...

ALEXANDER  KAN AN  INVISIBLE  ISLAND The Korean Diaspora of the CIS of 21-th century: An essay on the artistic mastering of a marginal consciousness (Translated by Steven Lee, Stanford University, USA) A great rejection               As one still remembers: a plastic being of the Soviet man was always in the fact that he clasped in his own hands something very narrow, limited in dimension...

Confession of a 42-Year-Old Writer: From a Literature of Frustration to the Literature of Overcoming    Alexandr Kan As with people, objects oftentimes become sources that arouse particular memory of one’s past. Strangely, though, objects seem to hold still the past, present, and future of a person, unlike memory of people which is subject to constant change. I tend to treat all my personal b...

A THIRD HAMLET (World Diasporas of the 21st Century: The Experience of the Literary Formation of a Marginal Hero) Alexander Kan (Translated by Steven Sunwoo Lee, Stanford Universiry) Our topic requires a quick overview of the problem.  Therefore allow me to begin my paper on the literature of Koreans of the CIS with an excerpt from one of my own essays, “The Origin of the Phantom” (1995). T...

By Roudri Bandyopadhyay Mangoes are the king of fruits; at least that’s what I was told as a child.  No part of a mango in any form goes to waste. Unripe mangoes are often cooked with lentils and enjoyed across the land of Bengal induring summer, when the blazing heat from the sun feels like it could crack skulls open. The recipe for Tok Daal is quite simple. My mother explained it to me in fiv...

Beyond the threshold of this door whispers the sea,and this slave house answers through the carvingsimprinted in the stone foundation, where crashing sea foam reaches its peak.Last night, I came to acknowledge that we may die as slaves,and, like our ancestors, will join the ethereal ranks of our ancestral spirit.Tonight, I raise my chains in farewell and cast my eyes on the Atlantic waters. We ...

ALEXANDER KAN  The Origin of an Apparition, or the Story of a True Passion       I am convinced that God is love; such a thought                                                   has a basic, lyrical truth for me. When it exists                                                   for me in reality, I am happy beyond words.                                                  When it is absen...