Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Manzella, Abigail G. H. (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Migration, Internal, in literature. Race relations in literature. Displacement (Psychology) in literature. Refugees in literature. American fiction. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. 1900 - 1999 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God
The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown
The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine
The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus
Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.