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Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern

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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. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Mar 2010
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781443819046

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Dr. Jessica Datema received her PhD in the PLC program (Philosophy Literature and Criticism) from the Comparative Literature Department and an MA in Philosophy at SUNY Binghamton in 2003. Her specialties are modernism psychoanalysis and literary theory. Dr. Datema currently lives in Brooklyn and is Assistant Professor at Bergen Community College. Previously she taught at Pratt Institute the school of art and design. She is currently working on a book on the American tradition of poetic violence from James Cain to Cormac McCarthy.Dr. Diane Krumrey Assistant Professor of English at the University of Bridgeport Connecticut writes about cross-cultural representations in early American literature twentieth-century Native American fiction ethnic American literatures and the theory of teaching. She is currently at work on a book entitled The Eloquent Savage in Early American Literature.

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