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American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiner, Sonia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Colección:Costerus ; v. 224.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.