Sell, Jonathan P. A. ProQuest (Firm) text conference publication Electronic books. enk Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K New York Palgrave Macmillan 2012 monographic eng

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xii, 239 p. 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. [edited by] Jonathan P.A. Sell. Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcala, 5 November 2010. Includes index. English fiction 20th century History and criticism Congresses Metaphor in literature Congresses Diasporas in literature Congresses PR878.M475 M47 2012 809/.93355 9780230358454 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=851060 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=851060 MiAaPQ 111207 20250821120057.0 EBC851060 eng