1st Edition
Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature
Introduction: Roots and Routes in American Literature about Return Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger Part I: Return as Memory Reconstructed 1. Migration, Exclusion, and "Home" in Edwidge Danticat’s Narratives of Return Valerie Kaussen 2. Between Home and Loss: Inscribing Return in Ruth Behar’s An Island Called Home Rocio G. Davis 3. Nightmares from My Parents: Return as Recovery in Doan Hòang’s Oh, Saigon Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz Part II: Restorative Nostalgias: Return as Emotional Re-Attachment 4. Andrew Lam’s Narratives of Return: From Viet Kieu Nostalgia to Discrepant Cosmopolitanisms Begoña Simal González 5. Returning Home: Iranian-American Women’s Memoirs and Reflective Nostalgia Persis Karim 6. Enacting an Identity by Re-Creating a Home: Eleni Gage’s North of Ithaka Eleftheria Arapoglou 7. El vaivén de la vida: Musings on Deterritorialized Border Subjects Norma E. Cantú Part III: Impossible Returns 8. Cuban Geographies: The Roots/Routes of Ana Menéndez Narratives Ada Ortuzar-Young 9. "The Inextinguishable Longings for Elsewheres": The Impossibility of Return in Junot Díaz Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez 10. Returning to Places of No Return in the Stuart Dybek’s Short Stories Tamas Dobozy
Biography
Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. She is the author of Battlegrounds and Crossroads: Social and Imaginary Space in Writings by Chicanas (2003).
