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| #5381564 in Books | 2010-12-01 | 2010-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.30 x1.20 x9.10l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 320 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Important book for thinking about the politics of hospitality and ...|By a reader in SC|Important book for thinking about the politics of hospitality and the US discourse around refugees--those seeking political asylum and those Shemak helpfully describes as economic refugees. Attentive to literary texts and visual images, including images from the US Coast Guard, as they relat||"Shemak opens up new critical territory with this volume. . . Through discussions of literary works by such writers as Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Edwidge Danticat, and Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes, among others, the author suggests that scholars must op
Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth value" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in constructing refugee subjectivity in New World cultural and political format...
You easily download any file type for your device.Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse (American Literatures Initiative) | April Shemak. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
