Identity, diaspora and return in American literature / / edited by Maria Antonia Oliver-Rotger |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9353 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Oliver-RotgerMaria Antonia |
Collana | Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Identity (Psychology) in literature Return in literature American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism Displacement (Psychology) in literature |
ISBN |
1-317-81820-2
1-138-54742-5 1-315-81888-4 1-317-81821-0 |
Classificazione | LIT004020SOC008000LIT000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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 Hòang's Oh, Saigon; Part II Restorative Nostalgias: Return as Emotional Re-Attachment
4 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 vaivén de la vida: Musings on Deterritorialized Border Subjects; Part III Impossible Returns; 8 Cuban Geographies: The Roots/Routes of Ana Menéndez Narratives; 9 "The Inextinguishable Longings for Elsewheres": The Impossibility of Return in Junot Díaz; 10 Returning to Places of No Return in Stuart Dybek's Short Stories; List of Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787060803321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Identity, diaspora and return in American literature / / edited by Maria Antonia Oliver-Rotger |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9353 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Oliver-RotgerMaria Antonia |
Collana | Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Identity (Psychology) in literature Return in literature American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism Displacement (Psychology) in literature |
ISBN |
1-317-81820-2
1-138-54742-5 1-315-81888-4 1-317-81821-0 |
Classificazione | LIT004020SOC008000LIT000000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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 Hòang's Oh, Saigon; Part II Restorative Nostalgias: Return as Emotional Re-Attachment
4 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 vaivén de la vida: Musings on Deterritorialized Border Subjects; Part III Impossible Returns; 8 Cuban Geographies: The Roots/Routes of Ana Menéndez Narratives; 9 "The Inextinguishable Longings for Elsewheres": The Impossibility of Return in Junot Díaz; 10 Returning to Places of No Return in Stuart Dybek's Short Stories; List of Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823768203321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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