American Migrant Fictions

Sonia Weiner. Ph.D. (2007), Tel Aviv University, is a lecturer in American Literature at that university. She has published articles on migrant fiction and African American literature, and has writer the prefaces for several Hebrew translations of American literary texts.

• Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: The Spatial Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Transligualism 1 Double Visions and Aesthetics of the Migratory: Aleksandar Hemon’s Lazarus Project2 Cohesive Fragments: G.B. Trans’s Graphic Memoir Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey3 Shape Shifting and the Shifting of Shapes: Migration and Transformation in Junot Díaz’s Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao4 “Weathering the Divide Between There and Here”: In-between Spaces in Boris Fishman’s A Replacement Life5 Translation and Transcreation in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring RainBibliography Index