Lives beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice (SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures) - Hardcover

Seethaler, Ina C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1438486197 ISBN 13: 9781438486192

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2021

Synopsis

Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities.

A cross-cultural, comparative study of contemporary life writing by women who migrated to the United States from Mexico, Ghana, South Korea, and Iran, Lives beyond Borders broadens and deepens critical work on immigrant life writing. Ina C. Seethaler investigates how these autobiographical texts-through genre mixing, motifs of doubling, and other techniques-challenge stereotypes, social hierarchies, and the supposed fixity of identity and lend literary support to grassroots social justice efforts. Seethaler's approach to literary analysis is both interdisciplinary and accessible. While Lives beyond Borders draws on feminist theory, critical race theory, and disability and migration studies, it also uses stories to engage and interest readers in issues related to migration and social change. In so doing, the book reevaluates the purpose, form, and audience of immigrant life writing.

About this title

About the Author

Ina C. Seethaler is Associate Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Coastal Carolina University.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438486197
• ISBN 13: 9781438486192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232