Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial by April Shemak
By April Shemak
By reading literary works by means of such writers as Edwidge Danticat, Nikòl Payen, Kamau Brathwaite, Francisco Goldman, Julia Alvarez, Ivonne Lamazares, and Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, theoretical paintings via Jacques Derrida, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, in addition to human rights files, govt records, images, and old reviews, Asylum audio system constructs a fancy photo of recent international refugees that expands present discussions of diaspora and migration, demonstrating that the peripheral nature of refugee testimonial narratives calls for us to reshape the limits of U.S. ethnic and postcolonial studies.
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