Wretched Refuge : Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern.
Material type: TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.Description: 1 online resource (172 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443819947
- 1443819948
- 9781443819046
- 1443819042
- 1282588249
- 9781282588240
- 9786612588242
- 6612588241
- Immigrants in literature
- Noncitizens in literature
- Exiles in literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- Immigrants dans la littérature
- Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature américaine -- 21e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Literary theory
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Literature & literary studies
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Noncitizens in literature
- American literature
- Exiles in literature
- Immigrants in literature
- Einwanderung -- Motiv -- Literatur -- USA
- Literatur -- USA -- Motiv -- Einwanderung
- Exil -- Motiv -- Literatur -- USA
- Literatur -- USA -- Motiv -- Exil
- Noncitizens
- 1900-2099
- 810.93526912
- PS374.I48
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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 ...
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Immigrants and itinerants -- pt. II. Fragmenting the linear.
English.
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