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Migrant sites : America, place, and diaspora literatures /

In Migrant Sites, Dalia Kandiyoti presents a compelling corrective to the traditional immigrant and melting pot story. This original and wide-ranging study embraces Jewish, European, and Chicana/o and Puerto Rican literatures of migration and diasporization through the literary works of Abraham Caha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kandiyoti, Dalia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover : University Press of New England, ©2009.
Colección:Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Place and diaspora literature : Introduction
  • Reformulating diaspora spatialities
  • Part II. Diasporizing local color and regionalism : Crossing Delancey: Jewish diaspora locality and U.S. literature
  • Pluralism in the immigrant prairie: Willa Cather's civilized primitives
  • Part III. Writing enclosure and translocality in the civil rights era and after : "Cuando lleguemos / When we arrive": the small town and the poetics of Chicana/o place
  • The poetics of Aquí: barriocentrism in Puerto Rican diaspora literature from mean streets to neo-noir
  • Conclusion.