Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Shadow Narratives of the Transnational 1
5. Part I: Novel Forms: Writing at the Limits of Citizenship
6. 1. Neither Citizen nor Alien: Rewriting the Immigrant Bildungsroman across the Borders of Empire in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart 27
7. 2. The Epistemology of Unbelonging: Richard Wright’s The Outsider and the Politics of Secrecy 66
8. PART II:S Peripheral Forms: Literatures of Alienage, Incarceration, and Deportation
9. 3. Richard Wright’s Cosmopolitan Exile: Race, Decolonization, and the Dialogics of Modernity 107
10. 4. The Undesirable Alien and the Politics of Form: Telling Untold Tales in C. L. R. James’s Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways 131
11. 5. Talking Back to the State: Claudia Jones’s Radical Forms of Alienage 163
12. Conclusion: An Empire of Alienage 197
13. Notes 205
14. Index 229