Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction: Migrant Aesthetics 1
5. Chapter One. Migrant Anonymity: Strategic Opacity in Dinaw Mengestu and Teju Cole 33
6. Chapter Two. Migrant Refraction: Aleksandar Hemon’s Anti- Autobiography 68
7. Chapter Three. Migrant Solidarity: Valeria Luiselli’s Echo Canyon 95
8. Chapter Four. Carceral Migration: Julie Otsuka’s Internment Novels 128
9. Chapter Five. Apocalypse and Toxicity: Junot Díaz’s Migrant Aesthetics 159
10. Chapter Six. Carceral Migration II: The Flores Declarations and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying 195
11. Epilogue. “Chinga La Migra”— Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s The Undocumented Americans 221
12. NOTES 237
13. INDEX 273