Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements /
Manzella, Abigail G. H.,
Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements / Abigail G.H. Manzella. - pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.
9780814213582 9780814254608 0814213588
2017036404
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Migration, Internal, in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Refugees in literature.
PS379 / .M295 2018
813/.509355
Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements / Abigail G.H. Manzella. - pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.
9780814213582 9780814254608 0814213588
2017036404
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Migration, Internal, in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Refugees in literature.
PS379 / .M295 2018
813/.509355