Migrant Sites
America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures
Dalia Kandiyoti

Dartmouth College Press
University Press of New England



Contents

Acknowledgments
• PLACE AND DIASPORA LITERATURE
• Introduction
• Reformulating Diaspora Spatialities
• DIASPORIZING LOCAL COLOR AND REGIONALISM
• Crossing Delancey: Jewish Diaspora Locality and U.S. Literature
• Pluralism in the Immigrant Prairie: Willa Cather’s Civilized Primitives
• 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




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