American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity

American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity /

"In American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity, Sonia Weiner focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore questions of linguistic diversity, identities and...

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Main Author: Weiner, Sonia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2018
Series:Costerus ; v. 224.
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Space and time in literature.
Liminality in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 21st century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the spatial aesthetics of transnationalism and transligualism
  • Double visions and aesthetics of the migratory: Aleksandar Hemon's Lazarus project
  • Cohesive fragments: G.B. Trans's graphic memoir Vietnamerica: a family's journey
  • Shape shifting and the shifting of shapes: migration and transformation in Junot Diaz's Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
  • "Weathering the divide between there and here": in-between spaces in Boris Fishman's A replacement life
  • Translation and transcreation in Vikram Chandra's Red earth and pouring rain.

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