Alienhood Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference

Name: Alienhood Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference
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ISBN: 9780816645770

ISBN-10: 0816645779

ISBN-13: 9780816645770

Edition: 2006

Authors: Katarzyna Marciniak

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"Alien" has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner" and "extraterrestrial creature." In Alienhood, Katarzyna Marciniak explores this semantic duality. Interrogating the dominant images of aliens in American popular culture--and in legal, historical, linguistic, and literary discourses--Marciniak examines "alienhood" and the impact it has on the daily experiences of migrants, legal or illegal. Using examples from exilic literature and cinema, including the works of Julia Alvarez, Eva Hoffman, Gregory Nava, and Roman Polanski, Alienhood theorizes multicultural experiences of liminal characters that belong in the interstices between nations. Investigating gendered,…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Transnational Aliens



Becoming Transnational: El Norte and the "Elsewhere" of Exile



Accented Bodies and Coercive Assimilation: The Trespasses of the Garcia Girls



The Dialectics of Exile: Resident Alienhood and Lost in Translation



Claustrophobic Exile: The Tenant and Ostracizing Logics of Difference



Anatomies of Abjection: Ethnic Cleansing and Liminality in Before the Rain


Afterword: The Last Immigrant


Notes


Bibliography


Index