Translating pain : immigrant suffering in literature and culture / Madelaine Hron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hron, Madelaine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Suffering in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Emigration and immigration.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.

Minority authors.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

300 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]

Contents:

Part I Translating Immigrant Suffering

1 'Perversely through Pain': Immigrants and Immigrant Suffering 3

2 'Suffering Matters': The Translation and Politics of Pain 33

Part II Embodying Pain: Maghrebi Immigrant Texts

3 'Mal Partout': Bodily Rhetoric in Maghrebi Immigrant Fiction 65

4 'In the Main of the Father': Disability and Bodies of Labour 83

5 'NI Putes Ni Soumises?' Engendering Doubly Oppressed Bodies 99

6 'Pathologically Sick': Metaphors of Disease in Beur Texts 119

Part III Affective Cultural Translation: Haitian Vodou

7 'Zombification': Hybrid Myth-Uses of Vodou from the West to Haiti 135

8 'Zombi-Fictions': Vodou Myth-Represented in Haitian Immigrant Fiction 155

Part IV Silencing Suffering: The 'Painless' Czech Case

9 'Painless' Fictions? Czech Exile and Return 187

10 'The Suffering of Return': Painful Detours in Czech Novels of Return 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802099198

080209919X

OCLC:

259246826