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UNINA9910479857903321 |
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Autore |
Weiner Sonia |
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Titolo |
American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity / / by Sonia Weiner |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Rodopi, , [2018] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Costerusn new series, , 0165-9618 ; ; v. 224 |
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Disciplina |
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American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism |
Space and time in literature |
Liminality in literature |
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century |
Literature and society - United States - History - 21st century |
American literature - Minority authors |
Immigrants' writings, American |
Space in literature |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- -- Contents -- Introduction: The Spatial Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Translingualism -- Double Visions and Aesthetics of the Migratory: Aleksandar Hemon’s Lazarus Project -- Cohesive Fragments: GB Tran’s Graphic Memoir Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey -- Shape Shifting and the Shifting of Shapes: Migration and Transformation in Junot Díaz’s The 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity , Sonia Weiner focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth |
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and early twenty-first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore questions of linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings. By weaving visual techniques within their narratives (photography, comics, cartography) authors Aleksandar Hemon, G.B. Tran, Junot Díaz, Boris Fishman and Vikram Chandra convey a surplus of perspectives and gesture towards alternative spaces, spatial in-between-ness and transnational space. |
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