In Conversation with
Karen Muñoz-Christian, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Description
Elvira Pulitano, professor in Ethnic Studies, and Karen Muñoz-Christian, associate professor of Spanish, discuss Pulitano’s book, Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience.
Dr. Pulitano’s book, published by Routledge in 2016, offers a timely window on issues of diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations. She explores the work of four well-known writers currently living in the United States: Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Caryl Phillips. Contesting restrictive, national, and linguistic boundaries when discussing literature originating from the Caribbean, Pulitano situates the transnational location of Caribbean-born writers within current debates of Transnational American Studies and investigates the role of immigrant writers in discourses of race, ethnicity, citizenship, and belonging.
Event Date
2-17-2017
City
San Luis Obispo, CA
Keywords
Immigration, Caribbean, Identity, Personal Accounts, Stories, Immigrant Writers
Disciplines
Ethnic Studies | Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Recommended Citation
Pulitano, Elvira, "Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience" (2017). Conversations with Cal Poly Authors. 23.
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/convocpauth/23