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American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity / by Sonia Weiner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiner, Sonia.
- Series:
- Costerus New Series 224.
- Costerusn new series, 0165-9618 ; v. 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.
- Space and time in literature.
- Liminality in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- Literature and society--United States--History--21st century.
- American literature--Minority authors.
- Immigrants' writings, American.
- Space in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Spatial Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Translingualism
- Double Visions and Aesthetics of the Migratory: Aleksandar Hemon’s Lazarus Project
- Cohesive Fragments: GB Tran’s Graphic Memoir Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey
- Shape Shifting and the Shifting of Shapes: Migration and Transformation in Junot Díaz’s The 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 (p. 217-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-36401-3
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004364011 DOI
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