Asylum Speakers : Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shemak, April Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Refugees > United States > Social conditions.
Refugees > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Refugees in literature.
American literature > Caribbean American authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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