Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii part i place and diaspora literature Introduction  . Reformulating Diaspora Spatialities  part ii diasporizing local color and regionalism . Crossing Delancey: Jewish Diaspora Locality and U.S. Literature  . Pluralism in the Immigrant Prairie: Willa Cather’s Civilized Primitives  part iii writing enclosure and translocality in the civil rights era and after . “Cuando Lleguemos/When We Arrive”: The Small Town and the Poetics of Chicana/o Place  . The Poetics of Aquí: Barriocentrism in Puerto Rican Diaspora Literature from Mean Streets to Neo-Noir  conclusion  notes  works cited  index  ...