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Projections of paradise : ideal elsewheres in postcolonial migrant literature /

Paradise is commonly imagined as a place of departure or arrival, beginning and closure, permanent inhabitation of which, however much desired, is illusory. This makes it the dream of the traveller, the explorer, the migrant - hence, a trope recurrent in postcolonial writing, which is so centrally c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ramsey-Kurz, Helga, Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 132.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Some Uses of Paradise; Revisiting Lost Gardens: The Expulsion from Childhood in the Writings of Penelope Lively; Kashmir by Way of London and New York: Projections of Paradise in Salman Rushdie and Agha Shahid Ali; Subverting the Tropical Paradise; The Search for Paradise: Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide; "But are we not all refugees from something?": Projections of Paradise in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef; Reconfigurations of "home as a mythic place of desire": Bernardine Evaristo's Soul Tourists. 
505 8 |a The Paradise Within: Displacement, Memory and Nostalgia in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the SeaParadise Regained? The Harem in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood; The Scent of Paradise: Michael Ondaatje's "The Cinnamon Peeler"; Waters of Paradise: The English Patient; "I got raptures once, and I saw God": Shabine as Prophetic Shaman of Paradise in Derek Walcott's "The Schooner Flight"; "I feel the land": Contradictions of Place in Rudy Wiebe's Mennonite Novels. 
505 8 |a Glimpses of Paradise: Hope in Short Stories of Migration by M.G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner HospitalNotes on Contributors; Index. 
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