"It's Better Life Here Than There": Elasticity and Ambivalence in Narratives of Personal Experience

International Multilingual Research Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-32

  Warriner, Doris S ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

displacement; narrative; temporal border crossing; temporal elasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873169832     PISSN: 19313152     EISSN: 19313160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2013.747421     Document Type: Article

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