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Author:

Manzella, Abigail G. H., author.

Title:

Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements / Abigail G.H. Manzella.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 223 pages : illustration ; 23 cm

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Migration, Internal, in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Refugees in literature.
American fiction.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Migration, Internal, in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Refugees in literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780814254608
0814254608
0814213588
9780814213582

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1000045939

LCCN:

2017036404

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)