{"product_id":"asylum-speakers-april-shemak-9780823233557","title":"Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of \"truth value\" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in constructing refugee subjectivity in New World cultural and political formations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy examining literary works by such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikòl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, theoretical work by Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, as well as human rights documents, government documents, photography, and historical studies, Asylum Speakers constructs a complex picture of New World refugees that expands current discussions of diaspora and migration, demonstrating that the peripheral nature of refugee testimonial narratives requires us to reshape the boundaries of U.S. ethnic and postcolonial studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e April Shemak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823233553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823233557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Literatures Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/10\/2010 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011 pg. 235","brand":"April Shemak","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086979182847,"sku":"9780823233557","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_318fb571-fd91-4d0d-a7e7-45ecfdc0b447.jpg?v=1769097606","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/asylum-speakers-april-shemak-9780823233557","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}