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Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing
- Title
- Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing / edited by Jonathan P.A. Sell.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR878.M475 M47 2012 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Sell, Jonathan P. A.
- Description
- xii, 226 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses
- Metaphor in literature > Congresses
- Emigration and immigration in literature > Congresses
- Migration, Internal, in literature > Congresses
- Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Congrès
- Métaphore dans la littérature > Congrès
- Émigration et immigration dans la littérature > Congrès
- Migration intérieure dans la littérature > Congrès
- LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General
- LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern
- Emigration and immigration in literature
- English fiction
- Metaphor in literature
- Migration, Internal, in literature
- Englisch
- Metapher
- Minderheit Motiv
- Minderheitenliteratur
- Genre/Form
- Kongress – Alcalá de Henares – 2010.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalá, 5 November 2010.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780230314221
- 0230314228
- LCCN
- 2011047523
- 40020753000
- OCLC
- ocn748328763
- 748328763
- SCSB-14509978
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library