{"product_id":"migrant-aesthetics-contemporary-fiction-global-migration-and-the-limits-of-empathy-paperback","title":"Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGlenda R. Carpio\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGlenda R. Carpio argues that we need a new paradigm for migrant fiction. \u003ci\u003eMigrant Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e shows how contemporary authors--Teju Cole, Dinaw Mengestu, Aleksandar Hemon, Valeria Luiselli, Julie Otsuka, and Junot D?z--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, \u003ci\u003eMigrant Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e casts fiction as vital testimony to past and present colonial, imperial, and structural displacement and violence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlenda R. Carpio is the chair of the English Department and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLaughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581253771366,"sku":"9780231207577","price":72.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/2T0f4QX-7W9780231207577.webp?v=1777672066","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/migrant-aesthetics-contemporary-fiction-global-migration-and-the-limits-of-empathy-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}