ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book comprises an array of essays representing many people across the world whose kindness, warmth, and intellectual generosity. It exemplifies the peculiar paranoia of the migrant condition—one which it is difficult not to see reflected in the reaction to the exceedingly generous collection: like most academics that is given to the vice of flicking hungrily through indexes in search. The book explores the ideas of place and displacement that gives a certain underlying unity to a body of work otherwise so disparate that it might seem to be the product of a kind of attention deficit disorder. It was an insight available to someone who is himself a child of the European Jewish diaspora, and a displaced New Zealander who has been based for twenty years in the United States. The book focuses on the meaning of color in William Shakespeare's text.
