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:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A unique comparative study of immigrant and diaspora literatures in America

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I | Place and Diaspora Literature; Introduction; 1 | Reformulating Diaspora Spatialities; Part II | Diasporizing Local Color and Regionalism; 2 | Crossing Delancey: Jewish Diaspora Locality and U.S. Literature; 3 | Pluralism in the Immigrant Prairie: Willa Cather's Civilized Primitives; 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

5 | The Poetics of Aquí: Barriocentrism in Puerto Rican Diaspora Literature from ""Mean Streets"" to Neo-NoirConclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-47300-X

9786612473005

1-58465-879-7

OCLC:

667078223