Wretched Refuge : Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern.

By:

Datema, Jessica

Contributor(s):

Krumrey, Diane

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.Description: 1 online resource (172 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781443819947
1443819948
9781443819046
1443819042
1282588249
9781282588240
9786612588242
6612588241

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wretched Refuge : Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern.DDC classification:

810.93526912

LOC classification:

PS374.I48

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Contents:

pt. I. Immigrants and itinerants -- pt. II. Fragmenting the linear.

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 ...

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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 ...