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Travelers, immigrants, inmates : essays in estrangement / Frances Bartkowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bartkowski, Frances, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Uses travel writings, U.S. immigrant autobiographies, and concentration camp memoirs to illustrate how tales of dislocation present readers with a picture of the complex issues surrounding mistaken identities. Bartkowski's elegantly written and incisive book stands at the crossroads of contemporary thought in cultural studies and ethnicity, race and gender, nationalism, and the politics and poetics of identity.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Who Speaks?; Travel as/is . . .; Seduction by Elsewhere; Heartless Travelers; From Travelers to Ethnics; or, Looking for America; Survival Elsewhere; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8555-X
- OCLC:
- 476093765
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