Title Wretched Refuge : Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern.

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.

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Summary	Recent literary expressions of the immigrant experience reveal the postmodern narrative obsession with the immigrant as cultural and political outlier. Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern asks us to reimagine this preoccupation with what Junot Diaz calls the "actual flows of third world bodies" as part of a larger, more pertinent motif of the postmodern itinerant. As a figure of cultural becoming, the itinerant stands for displacement and dispersion, exceeding the c ...
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	pt. I. Immigrants and itinerants -- pt. II. Fragmenting the linear.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Immigrants in literature.
	Immigrants in literature.
	Noncitizens in literature.
	Noncitizens in literature.
	Exiles in literature.
	Exiles in literature.
	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	21st century
	1900-2099
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author	Krumrey, Diane.
Other Form:	Print version: Datema, Jessica. Wretched Refuge : Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 9781443819046
ISBN	9781443819947 (electronic book)
	1443819948 (electronic book)
	9781443819046
	1443819042
Standard No.	9786612588242

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