TY - BOOK ID - 26170 TI - Migrating Fictions AU - Manzella, Abigail G.H. PY - 2018 SN - 9780814213582 DB - DOAB KW - Literature KW - Literary Studies KW - American KW - American Studies KW - Gender and Sexuality Studies KW - Race and Ethnic Studies UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:26170 AB - In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women’s literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turn” of literary studies to analyze the way the U.S has displayed a history of spatial colonization, which we see as a pattern we turn to a variety of seemingly disconnected forced migrations. With chapters that focus on migrations related the Dust Bowl, the Great Migration, the migration of peoples placed in Japanese American internment camps, and the migration of Southwestern migrant labor, Manzella makes some fascinating connections across narratives that would not typically be brought together. Ultimately, this project lays bare the oppressive practices of U.S. policy and reveals the resistance individual groups accessed as they completed these internal migrations. ER -