LEADER 04620nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910458212103321 005 20211005101220.0 010 $a0-8232-4119-X 010 $a1-283-29712-4 010 $a9786613297129 010 $a0-8232-3735-4 010 $a0-8232-3357-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237357 035 $a(CKB)2560000000056015 035 $a(MH)012663291-X 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000482842 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11308157 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482842 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10527198 035 $a(PQKB)11513562 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035350 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239540 035 $a(OCoLC)757509379 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15114 035 $a(DE-B1597)555104 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237357 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239540 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10436183 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL329712 035 $a(OCoLC)923763267 035 $a(OCoLC)1109299265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704269 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704269 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000056015 100 $a20100820d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAsylum speakers$b[electronic resource] $eCaribbean refugees and testimonial discourse /$fApril Shemak 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 310 p. )$cill. ; 225 1 $aAmerican Literatures Initiative 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-3355-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Poetics of Hospitality: Refugee, Migrant, Testimony -- $t1. Inter-dictions and Limbo Citizens: Haitian Boat Refugee Narratives -- $t2. False Witnessing: U.S. Coast Guard Photography of Haitian Boat Refugees -- $t3. Silent Subjectivities: Testimony and Haitian Labor Refugees -- $t4. Corporate Containment: Refugee Seafarers on the Seas of Transnational Labor -- $t5. Crossing the Threshold of Asylum: Dominican and Cuban (Post)Refugee Narratives -- $tEpilogue: Diverted Testimonies: New World Refugees in the Twenty-First Century -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aOffering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth value" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in constructing refugee subjectivity in New World cultural and political formations. By examining literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikňl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, theoretical work by Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, as well as human rights documents, government documents, photography, and historical studies, Asylum Speakers constructs a complex picture of New World refugees that expands current discussions of diaspora and migration, demonstrating that the peripheral nature of refugee testimonial narratives requires us to reshape the boundaries of U.S. ethnic and postcolonial studies. 410 0$aAmerican Literatures Initiative 606 $aAmerican literature$xCaribbean American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRefugees in literature 606 $aEmigration and immigration in literature 606 $aRefugees$zCaribbean Area$xSocial conditions 606 $aRefugees$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xCaribbean American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRefugees in literature. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration in literature. 615 0$aRefugees$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aRefugees$xSocial conditions. 676 $a810.9/3526914 700 $aShemak$b April Ann$01038761 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458212103321 996 $aAsylum speakers$92460540 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress