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Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing J. Sell

Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing By J. Sell

Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing by J. Sell


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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.

Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing Summary

Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing by J. Sell

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.

Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing Reviews

'A lively, varied and contentious contribution to the field' - James Procter, Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature, University of Newcastle, UK

About J. Sell

ISABEL CARRERA SUAREZ Professor in English, University of Oviedo, Spain STEF CRAPS BOF-ZAP Research Professor in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium ADRIANO ELIA Senior Lecturer in English, University of Rome 'Roma Tre', Italy ENRIQUE GALVAN-ALVAREZ Doctoral Candidate, University of Alcala, Spain FELICITY HAND Senior Lecturer in the English Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain RUTH MAXEY Lecturer in Modern American Literature, School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK STEPHEN MORTON Senior Lecturer in English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK SOFIA MUNOZ-VALDIVIESO Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Malaga, Spain CHRIS WEEDON Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah 'My split self and my split world': Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid's Fiction 'Beige outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie White Teeth's Embodied Metaphors: the Moribund and the Living Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons References

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NPB9780230314221
9780230314221
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Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing by J. Sell
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2012-01-06
226
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