Identity and Diasporic Trauma in Mira Jacob’s “The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing”
This article explores the assimilation politics in Mira Jacob’s novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing (2013). The intersection of memory, trauma, and mourning with reference to immigrant experience is discussed. In terms of assimilation, Barkan’s six stage model is critiqued, and diasporic ‘hybri...
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| Language: | English |
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New Bulgarian University
2021-06-01
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| Series: | English Studies at NBU |
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| Online Access: | https://esnbu.org/data/files/2021/esnbu.21.1.4.pdf |