Transatlantic subjects : acts of migration and cultures of transnationalism between Greece and America / Ioanna Laliotou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laliotou, Ioanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

Greek Americans.

Greek Americans--Ethnic identity.

Greek Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

American literature--Greek American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Greek Americans in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions--20th century.

Immigrants.

Transnationalism--History--20th century.

Transnationalism.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Social conditions.

American literature--Greek American authors.

Intellectual life.

Greek Americans--Social conditions.

Greece--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Greece.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Contents:

The "immigration problem"

Technologies of self: nativism, cultural pluralism, and "America"

The migrant remitted

Imagination

Short stories of migration and the literary process in diaspora

The exhibition of subjectivity: migrant performances and parody acts

Mnemonics

Bios and subjectivity: life stories in migration

The history of migration: autobiographical writing and historiography

Afterword: history in future anterior.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-244) and index.

ISBN:

0226468550

0226468577

OCLC:

52766140