The Good Immigrant USA - 26 Writers Reflect on America

Zusatztext The Good Immigrant is a lively and vital intervention into the British cultural conversation around race . Instead of statistics and dogma we find real human experience and impassioned argument - and it's funny and moving! too. Informationen zum Autor Nikesh Shukla Klappentext 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist An urgent collection of essays exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, the essays in The Good Immigrant USA come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multi-vocal portrait of America now. Essays from: Porochista Khakpour; Nicole Dennis-Benn; Rahawa Haile; Teju Cole; Priya Minhas; Walé Oyéjidé; Fatimah Asghar; Tejal Rao; Maeve Higgins; Krutika Mallikarjuna; Jim St. Germain; Jenny Zhang; Chigozie Obioma; Alexander Chee; Yann Demange; Jean Hannah Edelstein; Chimene Suleyman; Basim Usmani; Daniel José Older; Adrián Villar Rojas; Sebastián Villar Rojas; Dani Fernandez; Fatima Farheen Mirza; Susanne Ramírez de Arellano; Mona Chalabi; Jade Chang The Good Immigrant USA is a collection of twenty personal essays by writers and personalities exploring race, identity and culture, a follow up to the British Book Award nominated and crowdfunded publishing phenomenon, The Good Immigrant. Zusammenfassung The Good Immigrant USA is a collection of twenty personal essays by writers and personalities exploring race, identity and culture, a follow up to the British Book Award nominated and crowdfunded publishing phenomenon, The Good Immigrant....

Product details

• Authors: Nikesh Shukla, Shukla Nikesh, Chimene Suleyman, Suleyman Chimene
• Assisted by: Nikes Shukla (Editor), Nikesh Shukla (Editor), Suleyman (Editor), Suleyman (Editor)
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780349700380
• ISBN: 978-0-349-70038-0
• No. of pages: 323
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration