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Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements

Title
Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements / Abigail G.H. Manzella.
Author
Manzella, Abigail G. H.
Publication
  • Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xi, 223 pages : illustration; 23 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Migration, Internal, in literature
  • Race relations in literature
  • Displacement (Psychology) in literature
  • Refugees in literature
  • American fiction
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.
Call Number
JFE 18-3783
ISBN
  • 9780814213582
  • 0814213588
  • 0814254608
  • 9780814254608
LCCN
  • 2017036404
  • 40027880997
OCLC
1000045939
Author
Manzella, Abigail G. H., author.
Title
Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements / Abigail G.H. Manzella.
Publisher
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Standard Identifier
40027880997
Research Call Number
JFE 18-3783
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