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Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing/ [edited by] Jonathan P.A. Sell.
other author:	Sell, Jonathan P. A.
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcal�a, 5 November 2010.
Subject:	English fiction - Congresses. - History and criticism - 20th century -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230358454
ISBN:	9780230358454 (electronic bk.)

Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing
Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing[electronic resource] /[edited by] Jonathan P.A. Sell. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ;Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource.

Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcal�a, 5 November 2010.

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 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --.

Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers, 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. Essays on Nadeem Aslam, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Mohsin Hamid, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Chris Stewart not only open up their private thought-worlds but also uncover structural metaphors of diasporic experience and show how metaphor, far from being a merely literary figure, may be used (and abused) for political purposes, for defining and preserving a sense of identity, and for surviving in an often hostile world. In the process, the diasporic subject itself emerges as metaphorical by nature, constantly seeking its own meaning as it shuttles back and forth in its imagination between recollected homeland and adopted home.

ISBN: 9780230358454 (electronic bk.)

Source: 526131Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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English fiction
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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR878.M475 / M47 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93355

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