Full Description
"Immigrant Fictions" is a groundbreaking collection that brings together studies of world literature, book history, narrative theory, and the contemporary novel to challenge methods of critical reading based on national models of literary culture. Contributors suggest that contemporary novels by immigrant writers need to be read across several geographies of production, circulation, and translation. Analyzing work by David Peace, George Lamming, Caryl Phillips, Iva Pekarkova, Yan Geling, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Anchee Min, and Monica Ali, these essays take up a range of critical topics, including the transnational book and the migrant writer, the comparative reception history of postcolonial fiction, transnational criticism and Asian-American literature in the U.S., mobility and feminism in translation, linguistic mediation and immigrating fictions, migration and the politics of narrative form.
Contents
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, "The Location of LiteratureBook and the Migrant Writer"; Matthew Hart, "An Interview with David Peace"; Wen Jin, "Transnational Criticism and Asian Immigrant Literature in the U.S.: Reading Yan Geling's Fusang and Its English Translation"; Eric Hayot, "Immigrating Fictions: Unfailing Mediation in Dictee and Becoming Madame Mao"; Vera Eliasova, "A Cab of Her Own: Immigration and Mobility in Iva Pekarkova's Gimme the Money"; J. Dillon Brown, "Exile and Cunning: The Tactical Difficulties of George Lamming"; Alistair Cormack, "Migration and the Politics of Narrative Form: Realism and the Postcolonial Subject in Brick Lane".
