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In this chapter, Daily introduces Rejection and Disaffiliation through an examination of how immigration and terrorism have become linked through both rhetoric and policy in the early decades of the twenty-first century. The introduction familiarizes readers with key public figures (such as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) as well as sweeping policy changes (i.e., the PATRIOT Act) to lay the foundation for the long-form fiction that the book goes on to examine critically. Daily also outlines her overall contribution, an extended study of genre alterations to American immigration narratives, grounding her readers in theoretical foundations before diving into the work of the individual chapters.
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Daily, K. (2018). Introduction: Opportunities for Redefinition. In: Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives. Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92129-7_1
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