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Chapter 11 - There Is Here

Immigration Law and the Literature of Belonging

from Part III - The Dynamics of Race and Literary Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2024

By
Jean Pfaelzer
Edited by
John Ernest
John Ernest
Affiliation:
University of Delaware
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Summary

Immigrant authors in the United States write under the shadow of hostile laws that challenge expectations of political equality and belonging. Tales of repudiation and resistance mark the uncertainties of transit and the dangers of arrival. This study of Asian American texts exposes how US immigration laws naturalize race and redefine identities and lineage. Immigration law transformed American narrative forms to create a global and intercultural literature in which Asian migrants refuse to be turned into perpetual outsiders.

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Immigrant literatureAsian American literaturebelongingimmigration law and literatureexpulsionJapanese incarceration campfeminism and immigrant literaturenaturalizationcitizenshipOrientalism
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The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature , pp. 161 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • There Is Here
  • Edited by John Ernest, University of Delaware
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
  • Online publication: 02 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891189.013
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  • There Is Here
  • Edited by John Ernest, University of Delaware
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
  • Online publication: 02 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891189.013
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  • There Is Here
  • Edited by John Ernest, University of Delaware
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
  • Online publication: 02 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891189.013
Available formats
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