Title Asylum speakers : Caribbean refugees and testimonial discourse / April Shemak

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 310 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: the poetics of hospitality: refugee, migrant, testimony -- Inter-dictions and limbo citizens: Haitian refugee narratives -- False witnessing: U.S. Coast Guard photography of Haitian boat refugees -- Silent subjectivities: testimony and Haitian labor refugees -- Corporate containment: refugee seafarers on the seas of transnational labor -- Crossing the threshold of asylum: Dominican and Cuban (post)refugee narratives -- Epilogue: diverted testimonies: new world refugees in the twenty-first century Summary Offering an interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, this book relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism Refugees in literature. Emigration and immigration in literature. Refugees -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. American literature -- Caribbean American authors Emigration and immigration in literature Refugees in literature Refugees -- Social conditions Caribbean Area United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780823241194 082324119X 9780823233571 082323357X 9780823237357 0823237354 9780823248865 0823248860

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