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American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity / by Sonia Weiner.
Van Pelt Library PE1 .C66 n.s. v.224
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiner, Sonia, author.
- Series:
- Costerus ; new ser., v. 224.
- Costerusn new series, 0165-9618 ; volume 224
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Minority authors.
- Space and time in literature.
- Liminality in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- History.
- United States.
- Literature and society--United States--History--21st century.
- Immigrants' writings, American.
- Space in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 243 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
- Summary:
- "In American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity, Sonia Weiner focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore questions of linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings. By weaving visual techniques within their narratives (photography, comics, cartography) authors Aleksandar Hemon, G.B. Tran, Junot Díaz, Boris Fishman and Vikram Chandra convey a surplus of perspectives and gesture towards alternative spaces, spatial in-between-ness and transnational space." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the spatial aesthetics of transnationalism and transligualism
- Double visions and aesthetics of the migratory: Aleksandar Hemon's Lazarus project
- Cohesive fragments: G.B. Trans's graphic memoir Vietnamerica: a family's journey
- Shape shifting and the shifting of shapes: migration and transformation in Junot Diaz's Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
- "Weathering the divide between there and here": in-between spaces in Boris Fishman's A replacement life
- Translation and transcreation in Vikram Chandra's Red earth and pouring rain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Weiner, Sonia, author. American migrant fictions
- ISBN:
- 9789004364004
- 9004364005
- OCLC:
- 1028226022
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