Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures

From Huck Finn escaping civilization by lighting out to the territory to Jay Gatsby leaving the Midwest to pursue dreams in the big city, myths about place have played a key role in American literature. The history of Asian American confinement ranges from Angel Island to Chinatowns to the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, and Hawaii and the Philippines, like Mexico and Puerto Rico, have also been subject to US colonialism.