ABSTRACT
Unlike the preceding chapters, which focus in the main on specific geographical and national terrains, diasporas are more commonly associated with movements through and between locations, and even with dislocation. In fact, the concept of diaspora has been developed by many postcolonial critics to challenge the supremacy of national paradigms. In postcolonial studies, ‘diaspora’ can appear both as naming a geographical phenomenon – the traversal of physical terrain by an individual or a group – as well as a theoretical concept: a way of thinking, or of representing the world.
