Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse

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Asylum Speakers Asylum Speakers Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse april shemak Fordham University Press new york 2011 © 2011 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain , accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shemak, April. Asylum speakers : Caribbean refugees and testimonial discourse / April Shemak. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-3355-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8232-3357-1 (ebook) 1. American literature—Caribbean American authors—History and criticism. 2. Refugees in literature. 3. Emigration and immigration in literature. 4. Refugees—Caribbean Area—Social conditions. 5. Refugees— United States—Social conditions. I. Title. PS153.C27S54 2011 810.9'3526914—dc22 2010033990 Printed in the United States of America 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 First edition A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org. ...