LEADER 05111oam 2200709I 450 001 9910960468003321 005 20251116222910.0 010 $a1-317-81820-2 010 $a1-138-54742-5 010 $a1-315-81888-4 010 $a1-317-81821-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315818887 035 $a(CKB)3710000000244036 035 $a(EBL)1791307 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001347646 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11813258 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001347646 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11349780 035 $a(PQKB)11533390 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1791307 035 $a(OCoLC)893453698 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000244036 100 $a20180706d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aIdentity, diaspora and return in American literature /$fedited by Maria Antonia Oliver-Rotger 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature ;$v23 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-415-73558-0 311 08$a1-322-15755-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Roots and Routes in American Literature about Return; Part I Return as Memory Reconstructed; 1 Migration, Exclusion, and "Home" in Edwidge Danticat's Narratives of Return; 2 Between Home and Loss: Inscribing Return in Ruth Behar's An Island Called Home; 3 Nightmares from My Parents: Return as Recovery in Doan Ho?ang's Oh, Saigon; Part II Restorative Nostalgias: Return as Emotional Re-Attachment 327 $a4 Andrew Lam's Narratives of Return: From Viet Kieu Nostalgia to Discrepant Cosmopolitanisms5 Returning Home: Iranian-American Women's Memoirs and Reflective Nostalgia; 6 Enacting an Identity by Re-Creating a Home: Eleni Gage's North of Ithaka; 7 El vaive?n de la vida: Musings on Deterritorialized Border Subjects; Part III Impossible Returns; 8 Cuban Geographies: The Roots/Routes of Ana Mene?ndez Narratives; 9 "The Inextinguishable Longings for Elsewheres": The Impossibility of Return in Junot Di?az; 10 Returning to Places of No Return in Stuart Dybek's Short Stories; List of Contributors; Index 330 $a"This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of ethnic experiences ranging from the Transatlantic, Asian American, Latino/a and Caribbean alongside their corresponding forms of displacement - political exile, war trauma, and economic migration - the essays in this collection connect the intimate experience of the returning subject to multiple locations, historical experiences, inter-subjective relations, and cultural interactions. They challenge the idea of the narrative of return as a journey back to the untouched roots and home that the ethnic subject left behind. Their diacritical approach combines, on the one hand, a sensitivity to the context and structural elements of modern diaspora; and on the other, an analysis of the individual psychological processes inherent to the experience of displacement and return such as nostalgia, memory and belonging. In the narratives of return analyzed in this volume, space and identity are never static or easily definable; rather, they are in-process and subject to change as they are always entangled in the historical and inter-subjective relations ensuing from displacement and mobility. This book will interest students and scholars who wish to further explore the role of American literature within current debates on globalization, migration, and ethnicity"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;$v23. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aReturn in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDisplacement (Psychology) in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aReturn in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDisplacement (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a810.9353 676 $a810.9353 686 $aLIT004020$aSOC008000$aLIT000000$2bisacsh 701 $aOliver-Rotger$b Maria Antonia$01881054 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960468003321 996 $aIdentity, diaspora and return in American literature$94495364 997 $aUNINA