Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics
Image from Google Jackets
Image from OpenLibrary

Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing [electronic resource] / [edited by] Jonathan P.A. Sell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: xii, 239 pISBN:
  • 9780230358454
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809/.93355 23
LOC classification:
  • PR878.M475 M47 2012
Online resources:
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.
Item type:
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcala, 5 November 2010.

Includes index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Ⓒ 2020 Dedan Kimathi University of Technology

Library