Migrant sites : America, place, and diaspora literatures / Dalia Kandiyoti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kandiyoti, Dalia.

Series:

Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas

Reencounters with colonialism: new perspectives on the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.

Immigrants' writings, American.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 248 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, [2009]

Contents:

Part I Place and Diaspora Literature

Introduction 3

1 Reformulating Diaspora Spatialities 25

Part II Diasporizing Local Color and Regionalism

2 Crossing Delancey: Jewish Diaspora Locality and U.S. Literature 49

3 Pluralism in the Immigrant Prairie: Willa Cather's Civilized Primitives 81

Part III Writing Enclosure and Translocality in the Civil Rights Era and After

4 "Cuando Lleguemos/When We Arrive" : The Small Town and the Poetics of Chicana/o Place 121

5 The Poetics of Aquí: Barriocentrism in Puerto Rican Diaspora Literature from Mean Streets to Neo-Noir 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781584658054

1584658053

OCLC:

318878257