Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy

By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries....
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Author: Glenda R. Carpio
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Language: English
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy by Carpio, Glenda R.

Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy

¥13,876

Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy

¥13,876
Author: Glenda R. Carpio
Format: Paperback
Language: English

By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to expect stories of identity formation, of how immigrants create ethnic communities and maintain ties to countries of origin. Yet such narratives can center exceptional stories of individual success or obscure the political forces that uproot millions of people the world over.

Glenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. Migrant Aesthetics shows how contemporary authors--Teju Cole, Dinaw Mengestu, Aleksandar Hemon, Valeria Luiselli, Julie Otsuka, and Junot Díaz--expose the historical legacies and political injustices that produce forced migration through artistic innovation. Their fiction rejects the generic features of immigrant literature--especially the acculturation plot and the use of migrant narrators as cultural guides who must appeal to readerly empathy. They emphasize the limits of empathy, insisting instead that readers recognize their own roles in the realities of migration, which, like climate change, is driven by global inequalities. Carpio traces how these authors create literary echoes of the past, showing how the history of (neo)colonialism links distinct immigrant experiences and can lay the foundation for cross-ethnic migrant solidarity. Revealing how migration shapes and is shaped by language and narrative, Migrant Aesthetics casts fiction as vital testimony to past and present colonial, imperial, and structural displacement and violence.

Author: Glenda R. Carpio
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780231207577


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/26/2023

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