Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives

• Main Author: Daily, Katie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
• Subjects: America-Literatures.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature-History and criticism.; North American Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary History.

Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives examines changing attitudes about national sovereignty and affiliation. Katie Daily delinks twenty-first century American immigration narratives from 9/11, examining genre alterations within a scope of literary anal...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Opportunities for Redefinition
• 2. Rejecting America
• 3. Detaining Our Own
• 4. Helpless Helpers
• 5. Moral Exhaustion
• 6. Epilogue: Hammers and Walls.