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.
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American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Migration, Internal, in literature. Race relations in literature. Displacement (Psychology) in literature. Refugees in literature.