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Book SynopsisBetween Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction and Criticism offers excerpts from novels and short stories by some of the most important and established contemporary writers: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Rebecca Brown, Ana Castillo, Michelle Cliff, Edwige Danticat, Rikki Ducornet, Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ha Jin, and Helena María Viramontes. Readers interested in one or more of these authors, and scholars interested in multicultural and transnational literatures, have the opportunity to look more deeply at cultural identity with regard to home, belonging, freedom, history, and memory because the characters embody the hybrid selves that are part and parcel of an often-conflicting world of cultural codes. Migrations, dislocations, displacements, exiles, and relocations are ever more frequently embodied in the world and, thus, through literature. Increased globalization has brought with it greater cultural hybridity and experiential interrogations of singular identi
Table of ContentsContents: Alwin A. D. Jones: The Novel Witness(es): Re-membering after Trauma in Adichie’s «Ghosts,» Cliffʼs
No Telephone, and Danticatʼs
Farming of Bones – Lynn Diamond-Nigh: Spatial and Temporal Considerations in Rebecca Brown’s
The Haunted House and Rikki Ducornet’s
Phosphor in Dreamland – Catherine Rainwater: Tears and Dry Howls: Grief and Displacement in Three Novels by Erdrich, Castillo, and Viramontes – Belinda Kong: Diasporic Exceptionality: Maxine Hong Kingston’s «The Brother in Vietnam» and Ha Jin’s «A Good Fall».
