 | Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse Subjects: American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism; Refugees in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Refugees -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions; Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions; Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth value" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in constructing refugee subjectivity in New World cultural and political formations. Shemak April : April Shemak is an Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. |
