Migrating Fictions : Twentieth-Century Internal Displacements and Race in U.S. Women's Literature /

In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women's literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the "spatial turn" of literary studies to analyze the way the U.S has displayed a history of spatial colonizatio...

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Glavni avtor: Manzella, Abigail G. H. (Author)
Format: Elektronski eKnjiga
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Serija:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
  • The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God
  • The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown
  • The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine
  • The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus
  • Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.