Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing /

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 nation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sell, Jonathan P. A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Temas:
1900-1999
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses.
Metaphor in literature > Congresses.
Diasporas in literature > Congresses.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Congrès.
Métaphore dans la littérature > Congrès.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature > English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature.
English fiction
Metaphor in literature
Englisch
Metapher
Minderheit > Motiv
Minderheitenliteratur
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
e-kirjat.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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 / Sofía Muñóz-Valdivieso
  • Ancestry, uncertainty and dislocation in V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life / Enrique Galván Álvarez
  • 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 Suárez
  • Orpheus in the Alpujarras : metaphors of arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons / Jonathan P.A. Sell.

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