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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
132. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- Glimpses of Paradise: Hope in Short Stories of Migration by M.G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner HospitalNotes on Contributors; Index.