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April Shemak - Asylum Speakers - 9780823233557 - V9780823233557
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Asylum Speakers

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Description for Asylum Speakers hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 570.

Offering 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
American Literatures Initiative
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823233557
SKU
V9780823233557
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About April Shemak
April Shemak is an Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University.

Reviews for Asylum Speakers
"Shemak opens up new critical territory with this volume... Through discussions of literary works by such writers as Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Edwidge Danticat, and Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes, among others, the author suggests that scholars must open up their understanding of what shapes the peripheries of both postcolonial and ethnically based cultural and literary scholarship... Highly recommended." -Choice "April Shemak's ... Read more

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