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Migrant aesthetics : contemporary fiction, global migration, and the limits of empathy / Glenda R. Carpio.

"Traditionally, the American immigrant novel has been characterized by the plot of assimilation and stories about becoming (or failing to become) American. However, the focus on individual stories of transcendence (the migrants that "make it,") often obfuscates larger forces that lead...

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Main Author: Carpio, Glenda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Series:Literature now.
Subjects:
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Immigrants in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Empathy in literature.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Immigrants dans la littérature.
Émigration et immigration dans la littérature.
Empathie dans la littérature.
American fiction.
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: migrant aesthetics
  • Migrant anonymity: strategic opacity in Dinaw Mengestu and Teju Cole
  • Migrant refraction: Aleksandar Hemon's anti auto-biography
  • Migrant solidarity: Valeria Luiselli's Echo Canyon
  • Carceral migration: Julie Otsuka's internment novels
  • Apocalypse and toxicity: Junot Díaz's migrant aesthetics
  • Carceral migration II: the Flores declarations and Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying
  • "Chinga la Migra"-- Epilogue Karla Villavicencio's The undocumented Americans.

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