Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature

Name: Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature
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ISBN: 9780203128275

ISBN-10: 0203128273

ISBN-13: 9780203128275

Edition: 2012

Authors: Danny Mï¿½ndez

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Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, MÃ©ndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and Puerto Rico. He argues that given the historic place of creolization as a marker of national, cultural, and social development in the Caribbean and particularly the Dominican Republic, this cultural process is not magically annulled in Caribbean immigrations to the U.S. Instead, this book illustrates the numerous ways in which Dominicansâ subjective interpretation of their experiences of…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 3/12/2012
Pages: 214
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long