Asylum speakers : Caribbean refugees and testimonial discourse /

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Offering an interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, this book relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shemak, April Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
American literature > Caribbean American authors > History and criticism.
Refugees in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Refugees > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Refugees > United States > Social conditions.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Réfugiés dans la littérature.
Émigration et immigration dans la littérature.
Réfugiés > Caraïbes (Région) > Conditions sociales.
Réfugiés > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American literature > Caribbean American authors
Emigration and immigration in literature
Refugees in literature
Refugees > Social conditions
Caribbean Area
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the poetics of hospitality: refugee, migrant, testimony
  • Inter-dictions and limbo citizens: Haitian refugee narratives
  • False witnessing: U.S. Coast Guard photography of Haitian boat refugees
  • Silent subjectivities: testimony and Haitian labor refugees
  • Corporate containment: refugee seafarers on the seas of transnational labor
  • Crossing the threshold of asylum: Dominican and Cuban (post)refugee narratives
  • Epilogue: diverted testimonies: new world refugees in the twenty-first century.

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