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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552990503321

Autore

Perisic Alexandra

Titolo

Precarious crossings : immigration, neoliberalism, and the Atlantic / / Alexandra Perisic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-8142-7732-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 pages)

Disciplina

809.8920691

Soggetti

Immigrants' writings - History and criticism

Atlantic Ocean Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Globalizing the Atlantic -- The Atlantic Revisited -- The Indebted Immigrant  -- "How to Get Away with Murder": Multinational Corporations and Atlantic Crimes -- Trans-Atlantic Opacity -- Atlantic Undercommons -- Conclusion: Comparative Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the underlying precarity in twenty-first-century immigrant fiction and reveals the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology.