Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing / edited by Jonathan P. A. Sell.

Other author Sell, Jonathan P. A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionxii, 226 p. ; 23 cm.
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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 notePapers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalá, 5 November 2010.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9780230314221 (hardback)

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