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Contemporary Immigrant Writing and Black America (New American Canon)

Contemporary Immigrant Writing and Black America (New American Canon)

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Publisher:
University Of Iowa Press
ISBN:
9781685970994
Pages:
288
Age Range:
18 - 19
Language:
English
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Description

Contemporary Immigrant Writing and Black America addresses how minoritized communities in the United States find each other, make sense of each other, and come together to confront the many guises of racism and racist practices. This book probes the life and writings of Korean immigrants, Indian immigrants, and various African immigrants for insights into the ways that they experience and express their new lives in the United States. More specifically, this book shows how immigrant communities come to understand their relationship with the Black American community; the relation that is key to finding their own voice about race, culture, and power in the United States.

About the Author

Emad Mirmotahari is associate professor of English at Duquesne University. He is author of Islam in the Eastern African Novel. His work has appeared in Callaloo, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in the Novel, and Postcolonial Studies, among others. Originally from Iran, Mirmotahari lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Praise for Contemporary Immigrant Writing and Black America (New American Canon)

“Emad Mirmotahari provides subtle analyses of contemporary immigrant autobiography, including through his own powerful autotheoretical voice, assembling a timely and essential argument regarding the enmeshment of racialized immigrant strivings and Black life. Mirmotahari furnishes splendid close readings toward both insurgent multiethnic literary study and a potential renewal of people-of-color consciousness and coalitional imagination.”—Seulghee Lee, author, Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life