Seethaler Lives beyond Borders

US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8621-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures

Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seethaler, Ina C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reading Memoirs by Immigrant Women in the United States

1. A Genre for Justice: Life Writing and Undocumented Migration

2. Living Like an Alien: Blackness, Migration, and Depression

3. Transnational Adoptee Life Writing: Oppressed Voices and Genre Choices

4. (Re)Negotiating the Self: Collective Memoir and Border Crossings

5. Life Narratives and the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Epilogue: The Power and Future of Immigrant Women's Life Writing

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ina C. Seethaler is Associate Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Coastal Carolina University.