Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten
Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives
Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4438-6128-1
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imagining Home: Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives interprets the polymorphous development of two exiled writers’ identities, from the point of view of their “migrant” condition. Their restless, nomadic existence, perfectly reflected in the geographical territories mapped by the books under discussion, involves crossing boundaries, negotiating difference, and the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture. The outcome provides an insight into the concepts of Romanianness and Americanness, analysing them through the notions of alo-images and infra-images, while at the same time developing a context and a reading approach for Eastern European immigrant narratives.