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Wretched refuge [electronic resource]

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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...

Title Wretched refuge [electronic resource] : immigrants and itinerants in the postmodern / edited by Jessica Datema and Diane Krumrey.
Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Creation Date 2010
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content pt. I. Immigrants and itinerants -- pt. II. Fragmenting the linear.
Extent 1 online resource (172 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010713693405171
MARC RECORDS
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