Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature / by Françoise Král.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kral, Françoise.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Fiction.

Literature, Modern-20th century.

British literature.

Postcolonial/World Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

British and Irish Literature.

Local Subjects:

Postcolonial/World Literature.

Fiction.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

British and Irish Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Král takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analyses of writers including Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Monica Ali.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Paradigmatic Shifts and New Orientations in Diasporic Studies: Mapping the Site of Intervention; 2 Identity, Interstitiality and Diaspora; 3 Interstitiality, Authenticity, Postmodernity; 4 Shaky Ground, New Territorialities and the Diasporic Subject; 5 Disjunction, Ethics and the Diasporic Subject; 6 Language(s) and the Diasporic Subject; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612533440

9781282533448

1282533444

9780230244429

0230244424

OCLC:

497765692