Asylum Speakers : Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse /

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Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shemak, April (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2010]
Temas:
American literature > Caribbean American authors > History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Refugees in literature.
Refugees > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Refugees > United States > Social conditions.
American Studies.
Immigration & Migration.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Poetics of Hospitality: Refugee, Migrant, Testimony
  • 1. Inter-dictions and Limbo Citizens: Haitian Boat Refugee Narratives
  • 2. False Witnessing: U.S. Coast Guard Photography of Haitian Boat Refugees
  • 3. Silent Subjectivities: Testimony and Haitian Labor Refugees
  • 4. Corporate Containment: Refugee Seafarers on the Seas of Transnational Labor
  • 5. Crossing the Threshold of Asylum: Dominican and Cuban (Post)Refugee Narratives
  • Epilogue: Diverted Testimonies: New World Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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