Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing
Title:
Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing
Author:
Sell, Jonathan P. A.
Publication Information:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description:
xii, 239 p.
General Note:
Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcala, 5 November 2010.
Includes 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 / Sofia Munoz-Valdivieso -- Ancestry, uncertainty and dislocation in V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life / Enrique Galvan Alvarez -- 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 Suarez -- Orpheus in the Alpujarras : metaphors of arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons / Jonathan P.A. Sell.
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