Migrant Aesthetics - Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy

Glenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. She shows how contemporary authors expose the historical legacies and political injustices that produce forced migration.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Migrant Aesthetics
1. Migrant Anonymity: Strategic Opacity in Dinaw Mengestu and Teju Cole
2. Migrant Refraction: Aleksandar Hemon’s Anti-Autobiography
3. Migrant Solidarity: Valeria Luiselli’s Echo Canyon
4. Carceral Migration: Julie Otsuka’s Internment Novels
5. Apocalypse and Toxicity: Junot Díaz’s Migrant Aesthetics
6. Carceral Migration II: The Flores Declarations and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying
Epilogue: “Chinga La Migra”—Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s The Undocumented Americans
Notes
Index

About the author

Glenda R. Carpio is the chair of the English Department and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (2008), coeditor of African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (2011), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright (2019).

Summary

Glenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. She shows how contemporary authors expose the historical legacies and political injustices that produce forced migration.

Product details

• Authors: Glenda R. Carpio
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2023
• EAN: 9780231207560
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20756-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Literature Now
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Literary studies: from c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino, Relating to African American / Black American people, literary criticism; social science