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- Book Title
- Asylum Speakers : Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse
- Publication Name
- Asylum Speakers
- Title
- Asylum Speakers
- Subtitle
- Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0823233553
- EAN
- 9780823233557
- ISBN
- 9780823233557
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
- Release Date
- 01/12/2010
- Release Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Topic
- American / African American, Emigration & Immigration, American / General, American / Hispanic American, Caribbean & West Indies / General
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 26.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth value" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in constructing refugee subjectivity in New World cultural and political formations. By examining literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikòl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, theoretical work by Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, as well as human rights documents, government documents, photography, and historical studies, Asylum Speakers constructs a complex picture of New World refugees that expands current discussions of diaspora and migration, demonstrating that the peripheral nature of refugee testimonial narratives requires us to reshape the boundaries of U.S. ethnic and postcolonial studies.
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Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823233553
ISBN-13
9780823233557
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92614614
Product Key Features
Book Title
Asylum Speakers : Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Emigration & Immigration, American / General, American / Hispanic American, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
26.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps153.C27s54 2011
Edition Number
2
Reviews
Imaginatively 'trespassing' and remaking the borders of Caribbean, US ethnic, and postcolonial studies, April Shemak's book offers an eloquent analysis of refugees and asylum seekers in the contradictory discourses of hospitality. Her range of material testimonial narrative, congressional hearings, photographic archives, and contemporary literature is unique. This is theoretically astute and necessary scholarship that will speak to many constituencies.-Supriya Nair, Tulane University April Shemak's interweaving of visual, state, and literary narrativesis innovative and timely and will make an important impact on thediscourse of refugees and transnationalism.-Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles "Asylum Speakers is a timely and important study that performs the necessary task of 'breaking the surface of articulation' for refugees. Its readings and analyses of literary and non-literary narratives and utterances by, or on behalf of, refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. helps bring to light the extraordinary stakes-more often than not between life and death-that appears to rest solely upon the spoken word. The study's focus on western hemispheric 'forced' migrants to the U.S. from the second half of the twentieth century encompasses an extraordinarily complex mix of political circumstances and global economic reaches all intersected by contested vectors of race, class, and ethnicity. . . The refugee emerges through these pages as an extraordinarily compelling figure of our times." -Fawzia Mustafa, Fordham University Shemak opens up new critical territory with this volume. . . Through discussions of literary works by such writers as Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Edwidge Danticat, and Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes, among others, the author suggests that scholars must open up their understanding of what shapes the peripheries of both postcolonial and ethnically based cultural and literary scholarship. . . Highly recommended.-Choice, ""April Shemak's interweaving of visual, state, and literary narratives is innovative and timely and will make an important impact on the discourse of refugees and transnationalism."" --Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles, Imaginatively 'trespassing' and remaking the borders of Caribbean, US ethnic, and postcolonial studies, April Shemak's book offers an eloquent analysis of refugees and asylum seekers in the contradictory discourses of hospitality. Her range of material testimonial narrative, congressional hearings, photographic archives, and contemporary literature is unique. This is theoretically astute and necessary scholarship that will speak to many constituencies.-Supriya Nair, Tulane University April Shemak's interweaving of visual, state, and literary narrativesis innovative and timely and will make an important impact on thediscourse of refugees and transnationalism.-Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles "Asylum Speakers is a timely and important study that performs the necessary task of 'breaking the surface of articulation' for refugees. Its readings and analyses of literary and non-literary narratives and utterances by, or on behalf of, refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. helps bring to light the extraordinary stakes-more often than not between life and death-that appears to rest solely upon the spoken word. The study's focus on western hemispheric 'forced' migrants to the U.S. from the second half of the twentieth century encompasses an extraordinarily complex mix of political circumstances and global economic reaches all intersected by contested vectors of race, class, and ethnicity. . . The refugee emerges through these pages as an extraordinarily compelling figure of our times." -Fawzia Mustafa, Fordham University, Imaginatively 'trespassing' and remaking the borders of Caribbean, US ethnic, and postcolonial studies, April Shemak's book offers an eloquent analysis of refugees and asylum seekers in the contradictory discourses of hospitality. Her range of material testimonial narrative, congressional hearings, photographic archives, and contemporary literature is unique. This is theoretically astute and necessary scholarship that will speak to many constituencies. -----Supriya Nair, Tulane University, Asylum Speakers is a timely and important study that performs the necessary task of "breaking the surface of articulation" for refugees. Its readings and analyses of literary and non-literary narratives and utterances by, or on behalf of, refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. helps bring to light the extraordinary stakes--more often than not between life and death--that appears to rest solely upon the spoken word. The study's focus on western hemispheric "forced" migrants to the U.S. from the second half of the twentieth century encompasses an extraordinarily complex mix of political circumstances and global economic reaches all intersected by contested vectors of race, class, and ethnicity. This mix is further complicated by linguistic barriers of language groups and the formal mediations of (mis)translation, non-commensurate levels of education, as well as unstable, fluid locales, physical casualty and debilitation. The refugee emerges through these pages as an extraordinarily compelling figure of our times. -----Fawzia Mustafa, Fordham University, "April Shemak's interweaving of visual, state, and literary narratives is innovative and timely and will make an important impact on the discourse of refugees and transnationalism."--Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles, "April Shemak's interweaving of visual, state, and literary narratives is innovative and timely and will make an important impact on the discourse of refugees and transnationalism."&--Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles, April Shemak's interweaving of visual, state, and literary narratives is innovative and timely and will make an important impact on the discourse of refugees and transnationalism. -----Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles, The transnational framework of April Shemak's excellent book productively brings together postcolonial, American and Caribbean studies and will surely make an important impact in the humanities. -----Elizabeth DeLoughrey, University of California, Los Angeles
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2010-033990
Dewey Decimal
810.9/3526914
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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