| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) |
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text file |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Refugees in literature.
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Refugees in literature. |
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Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
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Displacement (Psychology) in literature. |
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
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Migration, Internal, in literature.
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Migration, Internal, in literature. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780814213582 |
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0814213588 |
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