Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing / edited by Jonathan P. A. Sell.
| Other author | Sell, Jonathan P. A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Description | xii, 226 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalá, 5 November 2010. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011047523 |
| ISBN | 9780230314221 (hardback) |
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