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Asylum Speakers : Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse.

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 value...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shemak, April
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a NotesBibliography -- Index 
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650 0 |a American literature  |x Caribbean American authors  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Refugees in literature. 
650 0 |a Emigration and immigration in literature. 
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650 0 |a Refugees  |z United States  |x Social conditions. 
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650 6 |a Émigration et immigration dans la littérature. 
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