{"product_id":"migrant-aesthetics-9780231207577","title":"Migrant Aesthetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlenda 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlenda R. Carpio’s superb book reframes our understanding of migration by highlighting the aesthetic strategies that authors like Julia Otsuka, Teju Cole, and Valeria Luiselli use to push readers away from empathy and toward understanding. In transcendent prose, Carpio illustrates how they frustrate readers’ desires for assimilation while revealing how we are all implicated in the economic, political, and ideological forces that create this global phenomenon. -- Paula M. L. Moya, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMigrant Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e makes a powerful intervention into contemporary thinking about the global migration crisis. From her opening analysis of stories by Franz Kafka and Dinaw Mengestu to her closing account of Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's \u003ci\u003eUndocumented Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, Carpio uses insightful close reading and contextual analysis to develop the idea of migrant aesthetics, a set of formal strategies that contemporary authors use to enable readers not simply to empathize with the plights of migrants but also to think critically about texts that portray migration and the discourses that surround them. This book is vital reading for anyone interested in either migration studies or contemporary world literature. -- Cyrus R. K. Patell, author of \u003ci\u003eEmergent U.S. Literatures: From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMigrant Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e is a manifesto for contemporary writers, revealing what comes after assimilation and multiculturalism. As Carpio shows, writers now both embrace and confront their readers with indirection, understatement, and multiple perspectives. Deeply indebted to the literary tradition from Kafka to Nabokov and Sebald, their works challenge the teleological program of individual, empathy-craving storytelling that Aleksandar Hemon calls migration literature’s überplot. They urge a new understanding of such collective experiences as ‘carceral migration’ in the global contexts of empires and thus also develop an ethics of migration. -- Werner Sollors, author of \u003ci\u003eEthnic Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author’s trenchant takes shed new light on critically acclaimed  works of literature and illuminate the concerns and aesthetic techniques  they share. It’s a penetrating assessment of the American immigrant  literature canon. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Migrant Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e1. Migrant Anonymity: Strategic Opacity in Dinaw Mengestu and Teju Cole\u003cbr\u003e2. Migrant Refraction: Aleksandar Hemon’s Anti-Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e3. Migrant Solidarity: Valeria Luiselli’s Echo Canyon\u003cbr\u003e4. Carceral Migration: Julie Otsuka’s Internment Novels \u003cbr\u003e5. Apocalypse and Toxicity: Junot Díaz’s Migrant Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e6. Carceral Migration II: The Flores Declarations and Edwidge Danticat’s\u003ci\u003e Brother, I’m Dying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: “Chinga La Migra”—Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s \u003ci\u003eThe Undocumented Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400371577175,"sku":"9780231207577","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231207577.jpg?v=1730470526","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/migrant-aesthetics-9780231207577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}