Title:
Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements / Abigail G.H. Manzella.
Author:
Manzella, Abigail G. H., author.
Publication Information:
©2018
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Call Number:
PS379 .M295 2018
Abstract:
"Migrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American incarceration, and the migrant labor of the Southwest, Abigail G.H. Manzella reveals how the country's past is imbued with governmentally (en)forced movements that diminished access to full citizenship rights for the laboring class, people of color, and women."--Publisher's description.
ISBN:
9780814213582
9780814254608
Physical Description:
xi, 223 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown -- The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine -- The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus -- Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.
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