The postcolonial citizen
Subtitle: the intellectual migrant
By: Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt.
Series: Postcolonial studies -- v. 3
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781433106019
Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Immigrants in literature; Home in literature; Displacement (Psychology) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Feminism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Remapping home; title: The arrival and the I-94: predicaments for entering and leaving; title: Forging states of belonging: migrant memory, nation, and subjectivity in Meena Alexander's memoir Fault lines; title: Double displacement, homelessness, and nomadism: questions of belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri's narratives; title: Threatening bodies, dangerous knowledge, legal interventions; title: The question of returns: irresolution of locations; title: Conclusion.