This essay considers the specific challenges that attend the study of the figure of the refugee, probing the valence of historical and geopolitical comparison alongside the limits and possibilities of literary methods. Considering recent books on the literature of migration, the essay examines the aftermath of twentieth-century wars in Asian American, Caribbean, Latinx, and US literary criticism.
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