Wretched Refuge Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern 1st Edition by Jessica Datema, Diane Krumrey ISBN 1443819948 9781443819947

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ISBN 10: 1443819948

ISBN 13: 9781443819947 

Author: Jessica Datema, Diane Krumrey

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 confines of physical location, political subjectivity, and relation to the natural world. Thus, Wretched Refuge seeks to map the cosmopolitan positionalities of an immigrant or exilic experience: the itinerant, the migrant, and other “foreign” bodies. The essays in Wretched Refuge consider fiction, memoir, and pop-culture genres that reconceive time, space, and the shifting situatedness of the subject within nature, politics, and culture. The book weaves together modern and postmodern visions of itinerancy in the writings of Cormac McCarthy, Bob Dylan, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jhumpa Lahiri, Roberto Bolaño, Paul Bowles, and Bill McKibben, among others. Throughout these radically different narratives, the trace of the itinerant suggests a cosmopolitan response to localized anxieties about global hegemony.

Table of contents:

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and Information about the Artist
Introduction

Part I: Immigrants and Itinerants

1. Media and Migration: Danticat, Díaz, Eugenides, and Scibona
2. Translocality in the New Post-American Immigrant Literature
3. Paul Bowles and the Problem of Postmodernity within the Colonized World
4. Border Crossing in the New Literature of Place

Part II: Fragmenting the Linear
5. “City of Clowns”: The City as a Performative Space in the Prose of Daniel Alarcón, Junot Díaz, and Roberto Bolaño
6. “The Dividing Line Ran Through the Center of Town”: Bob Dylan’s Own Exiles on Main Street
7. Cormac McCarthy: Itinerant Acts and Becoming Maps

Contributors
Index

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