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CURBDivya Victor

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2021128 pages
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"Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence, but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. Curb witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark "other" by reclaiming the throbbing, many-tongued, vermillion heart of kith."--Publisher's description. Curb maps our post-9/11 political…

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  • Paperback · English · 2021
    Nightboat Books · 128 pages · 9781643620701
East Indian AmericansCrimes againstPoetryImmigrantsArtists' booksSpecimensAmerican poetry