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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823237357
035 _a(DE-B1597)555104
035 _a(OCoLC)1109299265
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050 4 _aPS153.C27
_bS54 2011
072 7 _aLIT004050
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aShemak, April
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAsylum Speakers :
_bCaribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse /
_cApril Shemak.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: The Poetics of Hospitality: Refugee, Migrant, Testimony --
_t1. Inter-dictions and Limbo Citizens: Haitian Boat Refugee Narratives --
_t2. False Witnessing: U.S. Coast Guard Photography of Haitian Boat Refugees --
_t3. Silent Subjectivities: Testimony and Haitian Labor Refugees --
_t4. Corporate Containment: Refugee Seafarers on the Seas of Transnational Labor --
_t5. Crossing the Threshold of Asylum: Dominican and Cuban (Post)Refugee Narratives --
_tEpilogue: Diverted Testimonies: New World Refugees in the Twenty-First Century --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aOffering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth value" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in constructing refugee subjectivity in New World cultural and political formations. By examining literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikòl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, theoretical work by Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, as well as human rights documents, government documents, photography, and historical studies, Asylum Speakers constructs a complex picture of New World refugees that expands current discussions of diaspora and migration, demonstrating that the peripheral nature of refugee testimonial narratives requires us to reshape the boundaries of U.S. ethnic and postcolonial studies.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xCaribbean American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEmigration and immigration in literature.
650 0 _aRefugees in literature.
650 0 _aRefugees
_zCaribbean Area
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aRefugees
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
650 4 _aAmerican Studies.
650 4 _aImmigration & Migration.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823237357?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823237357
856 4 2 _3Cover
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