Immigrant Rage: Alienhood, “Hygienic” Identities, and the Second World

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katarzyna marciniak is Associate Professor in the English Department at Ohio University, where she teaches feminist theory and transnational literature and cinema. Currently she holds the position of Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and her interdisciplinary work on transcultural cinema and literature, exile, immigration, discourses of transnationalism, and visual culture have appeared in Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, and, most recently, in the afi Film Reader, East European Cinemas (Routledge, 2005). A new essay, “New Europe: Eyes Wide Shut,” is forthcoming in Social Identities. Her work in progress includes a book titled “Immigrant Rage,” and a coedited collection of essays, “Transnational Feminist Encounters in Film and Media.”