Glenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. She shows how contemporary authors expose the historical legacies and political injustices that produce forced migration.
Glenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. She shows how contemporary authors expose the historical legacies and political injustices that produce forced migration.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Glenda R. Carpio is the chair of the English Department and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (2008), coeditor of African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (2011), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright (2019).
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Migrant Aesthetics 1. Migrant Anonymity: Strategic Opacity in Dinaw Mengestu and Teju Cole 2. Migrant Refraction: Aleksandar Hemon's Anti-Autobiography 3. Migrant Solidarity: Valeria Luiselli's Echo Canyon 4. Carceral Migration: Julie Otsuka's Internment Novels 5. Apocalypse and Toxicity: Junot Díaz's Migrant Aesthetics 6. 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
