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Wretched refuge : immigrants and itinerants in the postmodern / edited by Jessica Datema and Diane Krumrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants in literature.
- Noncitizens in literature.
- Exiles in literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recent literary expressions of the immigrant experience reveal the postmodern narrative obsession with the immigrant as cultural and political outlier. Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern asks us to reimagine this preoccupation with what Junot Diaz calls the "actual flows of third world bodies" as part of a larger, more pertinent motif of the postmodern itinerant. As a figure of cultural becoming, the itinerant stands for displacement and dispersion, exceeding the c...
- Contents:
- pt. I. Immigrants and itinerants
- pt. II. Fragmenting the linear.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-58824-9
- 9786612588242
- 1-4438-1994-8
- OCLC:
- 827209401
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