Reading and representing African refugees in New York

Tracy Kidder and Jonny Steinberg have constructed evocative biographies of African refugees' dislocation, journeys and struggles to settle in the USA. These books are reviewed through the lens of how South African readers might read these books given local imaginings of African refugees. The ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sean Field
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and the History Department 2011-01-01
Series:Kronos
Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902011000100008