Migrant Aesthetics : : Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy / / Glenda R. Carpio.
By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to expect stories of identity formation, of how immigrants create ethnic communities and maintain ties to countries of origin. Yet such narratives can center...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature Now
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: Migrant Aesthetics
- Chapter One. Migrant Anonymity: Strategic Opacity in Dinaw Mengestu and Teju Cole
- Chapter Two. Migrant Refraction: Aleksandar Hemon’s Anti- Autobiography
- Chapter Three. Migrant Solidarity: Valeria Luiselli’s Echo Canyon
- Chapter Four. Carceral Migration: Julie Otsuka’s Internment Novels
- Chapter Five. Apocalypse and Toxicity: Junot Díaz’s Migrant Aesthetics
- Chapter Six. Carceral Migration II: The Flores Declarations and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying
- Epilogue. “Chinga La Migra”— Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s The Undocumented Americans
- NOTES
- INDEX