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During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African American writers—C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright—Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms “alienage,” as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of the "American Century.” Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today.

American literature --- Race in literature. --- Citizenship in literature. --- Immigrants' writings, American --- American immigrants' writings --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors

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Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a population united by that language, irrespective of national origin; and it solidifies and furthers national identity. The literature of immigration reflects the reasons for emigrating, records—both orally and in writing—the trials and tribulations of immigration, and facilitates adjustment to the new society while maintaining links with the old society. Based on an archive assembled over the past two decades by author Nicolás Kanellos's Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage project, this comprehensive study is one of the first to define this body of work. Written and recorded by people from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, the texts presented here reflect the dualities that have characterized the Hispanic immigrant experience in the United States since the mid-nineteenth century, set always against a longing for homeland.

American literature --- Immigrants' writings, American --- Hispanic Americans in literature. --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Hispanic American authors --- History and criticism. --- American immigrants' writings

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American prose literature --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Women immigrants --- Women pioneers --- Immigrants' writings, American --- Women and literature --- Autobiography --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Literature --- American immigrants' writings --- American literature --- Frontier women --- Pioneer women --- Pioneers --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- Biography --- History. --- Women authors.

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In American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity, Sonia Weiner focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore questions of linguistic diversity, identities and be-longings. By weaving visual techniques within their narratives (photography, comics, cartography) authors Aleksandar Hemon, G.B. Tran, Junot Diaz, Boris Fishman and Vikram Chandra convey a surplus of perspectives and gesture towards alternative spaces, spatial in-between-ness and transnational space.

Nationale Minderheit --- Identität --- Roman --- Prosa --- Raum --- Einwanderer --- Erzähltheorie --- Geschichte 1995-2014 --- USA --- American fiction --- American literature --- Immigrants' writings, American --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Space and time in literature. --- Liminality in literature. --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors --- History --- 82.04 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- Immigrants' writings, American. --- Space in literature. --- American immigrants' writings --- Ethnic literature (American) --- Minority literature (American) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- Minority authors. --- Social aspects

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Looking at fiction and nonfiction by citizen journalists and undocumented writers, Caminero-Santangelo finds that latino/a writers increasingly express a sense of solidarity with undocumented immigrants. She also notes, however, that the literary and narrative response is far from heterogeneous.

Border patrols --- Social justice in literature. --- Undocumented immigrants --- Immigrants' writings, American --- American literature --- Boundary patrols --- Frontier patrols --- Surveillance by border patrols --- Police --- American immigrants' writings --- Government policy --- History and criticism. --- Hispanic American authors --- Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.) --- United States. --- Mexican-American Border Region. --- American-Mexican Border Region --- Border Region, American-Mexican --- Border Region, Mexican-American --- Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) --- Mexico-United States Border Region --- Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos --- United States-Mexico Border Region --- Illegal aliens --- Aliens --- Enemy aliens --- Expatriates --- Foreign population --- Foreign residents --- Foreigners --- Illegal immigrants --- Non-citizens --- Noncitizens --- Resident aliens --- Unauthorized immigrants --- Undocumented aliens --- Unnaturalized foreign residents --- Persons --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Illegal immigration --- Children of illegal aliens --- Illegal alien children --- Irregular migration --- Unauthorized immigration --- Undocumented immigration --- Women illegal aliens --- Emigration and immigration --- Human smuggling --- Noncitizen detention centers --- Noncitizens in literature. --- Illegal immigration in literature. --- Illegal aliens in literature --- Aliens in literature --- Illegal immigration.