Wretched Refuge
Subtitle: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781443819046
Copyright date: 2010
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: Acknowledgments .................................................................................... xi; title: List of Illustrations and Information about the Artist ................................ xii; title: Introduction ................................................................................................. 1; title: Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern; title: Jessica Datema and Diane Krumrey; title: Part I: Immigrants and Itinerants; title: Chapter One................................................................................................. 9; title: Media and Migration: Danticat, Díaz, Eugenides, and Scibona; title: Caren Irr; title: Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 27; title: Translocality in the New Post-American Immigrant Literature; title: Diane Krumrey; title: Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 41; title: Paul Bowles and the Problem of Postmodernity within the Colonized; title: World; title: Steve Weber; title: Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 69; title: Border Crossing in the New Literature of Place; title: Wendy Harding; title: Part II: Fragmenting the Linear; title: Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 89; title: “City of Clowns”: The City as a Performative Space in the Prose; title: of Daniel Alarcón, Junot Díaz, and Roberto Bolaño; title: Stacey Balkan; title: Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 109; title: “The Dividing Line Ran Through the Center of Town”:; title: Bob Dylan’s Own Exiles on Main Street; title: Paul Almonte and Lisa O’Neill; title: Chapter Seven.......................................................................................... 133; title: Cormac McCarthy: Itinerant Acts and Becoming Maps; title: Jessica Datema; title: Contributors............................................................................................. 155; title: Index........................................................................................................ 157