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Wretched Refuge : Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern.
Recent literary expressions of the immigrant experience reveal the postmodern narrative obsession with the immigrant as cultural and political outlier. Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern asks us to reimagine this preoccupation with what Junot Diaz calls the "actual flo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Recent literary expressions of the immigrant experience reveal the postmodern narrative obsession with the immigrant as cultural and political outlier. Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern asks us to reimagine this preoccupation with what Junot Diaz calls the "actual flows of third world bodies" as part of a larger, more pertinent motif of the postmodern itinerant. As a figure of cultural becoming, the itinerant stands for displacement and dispersion, exceeding the c ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (172 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443819947 1443819948 9781443819046 1443819042 1282588249 9781282588240 9786612588242 6612588241 |