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Book SynopsisIn American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity, Sonia Weiner focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore questions of linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings. By weaving visual techniques within their narratives (photography, comics, cartography) authors Aleksandar Hemon, G.B. Tran, Junot Díaz, Boris Fishman and Vikram Chandra convey a surplus of perspectives and gesture towards alternative spaces, spatial in-between-ness and transnational space.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: The Spatial Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Transligualism 1 Double Visions and Aesthetics of the Migratory: Aleksandar Hemon’s Lazarus Project 2 Cohesive Fragments: G.B. Trans’s Graphic Memoir Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey 3 Shape Shifting and the Shifting of Shapes: Migration and Transformation in Junot Díaz’s Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 4 “Weathering the Divide Between There and Here”: In-between Spaces in Boris Fishman’s A Replacement Life 5 Translation and Transcreation in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain Bibliography Index
