{"product_id":"precarious-crossings-alexandra-perisic-9780814214107","title":"Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic","description":"With global debt, labor, and environmental crises on the rise, the precarious position of people in the Global South has become a significant force moving people across countries, continents, and around the world. Through a comparative study of contemporary trans-Atlantic immigrant narratives in French, Spanish, and English, Alexandra Perisic offers an account of a multilingual Atlantic under neoliberalism. More specifically, \u003ci\u003ePrecarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how contemporary authors from the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America--including Roberto Bolaño, Giannina Braschi, Maryse Condé, Fatou Diome, Marie Ndiaye, and Caryl Phillips, among others--have reconceptualized the Atlantic from a triangular space into a multipolar one, introducing new destinations for contemporary immigrants and establishing new Atlantic connections. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Perisic argues that in traveling beyond the postcolonial route that connects former colonizer and former colonized, these authors also shift their focus from cultural difference and national belonging to precarity--a condition characterized by a lack of economic and social stability and protection--as a shared characteristic under global neoliberalization. She demonstrates how contemporary Atlantic narratives reveal the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology--thereby showing how they further participate in Atlantic literary and cultural dialogues and push against literary conventions of various genre as they explore the complexities of a globalized Atlantic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Perisic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081421410X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814214107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Alexandra Perisic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056911282431,"sku":"9780814214107","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42e4e882-5f41-4ed6-99d0-37c12e6f715a.jpg?v=1685043953","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/precarious-crossings-alexandra-perisic-9780814214107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}