Asylum speakers : Caribbean refugees and testimonial discourse

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Shemak,April Ann (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2011
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780823233557
    Published:
    New York: Fordham University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9780823233557; 0823233553
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, United States, Authors, Literature, Social conditions, Caribbean Americans, Refugees, History and criticism, and Emigration and immigration
    Notes:
    310 p., Relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. Examines literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodriguez Milans, Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris.

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