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American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity

Title
American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity / by Sonia Weiner.
Author
Weiner, Sonia
Publication
  • Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xi, 243 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
Summary
"In American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity, Sonia Weiner focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore questions of linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings. By weaving visual techniques within their narratives (photography, comics, cartography) authors Aleksandar Hemon, G.B. Tran, Junot Díaz, Boris Fishman and Vikram Chandra convey a surplus of perspectives and gesture towards alternative spaces, spatial in-between-ness and transnational space."--
Series Statement
Costerus new series, 0165-9618 ; volume 224
Uniform Title
Costerus ; new ser., v. 224.
Subject
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
  • American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism
  • Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism
  • Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
  • Space and time in literature
  • Liminality in literature
  • Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century
  • Literature and society > United States > History > 21st century
  • American literature > Minority authors
  • Immigrants' writings, American
  • Space in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the spatial aesthetics of transnationalism and transligualism -- Double visions and aesthetics of the migratory: Aleksandar Hemon's Lazarus project -- Cohesive fragments: G.B. Trans's graphic memoir Vietnamerica: a family's journey -- Shape shifting and the shifting of shapes: migration and transformation in Junot Diaz's Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao -- "Weathering the divide between there and here": in-between spaces in Boris Fishman's A replacement life -- Translation and transcreation in Vikram Chandra's Red earth and pouring rain.
Call Number
JFE 18-8581
ISBN
  • 9789004364004
  • 9004364005
LCCN
2018008865
OCLC
1028226022
Author
Weiner, Sonia, author.
Title
American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity / by Sonia Weiner.
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Costerus new series, 0165-9618 ; volume 224
Costerus ; new ser., v. 224.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Weiner, Sonia. American migrant fictions. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018] 9789004364011 (DLC) 2018026525
Research Call Number
JFE 18-8581
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