Contents

Preface

Introduction

MARIANNE HIRSCH AND NANCY K. MILLER

PART I   Tangled Roots and New Genealogies

1.  The Factness of Diaspora: The Social Sources of Genetic Genealogy

ALONDRA NELSON

2.  Jews—Lost and Found: Genetic History and the Evidentiary Terrain of Recognition

NADIA ABU EL-HAJ

3.  The Web and The Reunion: http://czernowitz.ehpes.com

MARIANNE HIRSCH AND LEO SPITZER

4.  Queering Roots, Queering Diaspora

JARROD HAYES

5.  Indigenous Australian Arts of Return: Mediating Perverse Archives

ROSANNE KENNEDY

PART II   Genres of Return

6.  Memoirs of Return

SAIDIYA HARTMAN, EVA HOFFMAN, AND DANIEL MENDELSOHN IN CONVERSATION WITH NANCY K. MILLER

7.  Return to Half-Ruins: Fathers and Daughters, Memory and History in Palestine

LILA ABU-LUGHOD

8.  Singing with the Taxi Driver: From Bollywood to Babylon

JAY PROSSER

9.  Off-Modern Homecoming in Art and Theory

SVETLANA BOYM

10. Return to Nicaragua: The Aftermath of Hope

SUSAN MEISELAS

PART III   Rights of Return

11. Between Two Returns

AMIRA HASS

12. Adoption and Return: Transnational Genealogies, Maternal Legacies

MARGARET HOMANS

13. Foreign Correspondence

SONALI THAKKAR

14. “O Give Me a Home”

PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS,

IMAGES FROM NEW ORLEANS BY KEITH CALHOUN AND CHANDRA MCCORMICK

15. The Politics of Return: When Rights Become Rites

ELAZAR BARKAN

PART IV   Sites of Return and the New Tourism of Witness

16. Sites of Conscience: Lighting Up Dark Tourism

LIZ ŠEVČENKO

17. Kishinev Redux: Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony

NANCY K. MILLER

18. Trauma as Durational Performance: A Return to Dark Sites

DIANA TAYLOR

19. Pilgrimages, Reenactment, and Souvenirs: Modes of Memory Tourism

MARITA STURKEN

Contributors

Index