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Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing / edited by J. Sell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Oriental literature.
- European literature.
- World Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Asian Literature.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- World Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Asian Literature.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity.
- Contents:
- Introduction : metaphor and diaspora / Jonathan P.A. Sell
- Tropes of diasporic life in the work of Nadeem Aslam / Chris Weedon
- Becoming foreign : tropes of migrant identity in three novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah / Felicity Hand
- 'My split self and my split world' : troping identity in Mohsin Hamid's fiction / Adriano Elia
- 'Beige outlaws' : Hanif Kureishi, miscegenation and diasporic experience / Ruth Maxey
- Metaphors of belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island / Sofia Munoz-Valdivieso
- Ancestry, uncertainty and dislocation in V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life / Enrique Galvan Alvarez
- Jewish/postcolonial diasporas in the work of Caryl Phillips / Stef Craps
- Metaphors of the secular in the fiction of Salman Rushdie / Stephen Morton
- White Teeth's embodied metaphors : the moribund and the living / Isabel Carrera Suarez
- Orpheus in the Alpujarras : metaphors of arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons / Jonathan P.A. Sell.
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcala, 5 November 2010.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print:
- ISBN:
- 9786613440068
- 9781283440066
- 1283440067
- 9780230358454
- 0230358454
- OCLC:
- 774695941
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