American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity
- ISBN-10
- 9004364013
- ISBN-13
- 9789004364011
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-03
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Author
- Sonia Weiner
Description
American Migrant Fictions focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings.
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