TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sell, Jonathan P. A.
TI  - Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing
SN  - 9780230314221 (hardback)
U1  - 809.93 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Congresses
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Metaphor in literature
KW  - Diasporas in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
KW  - Literature displaying specific features
N1  - Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalá, 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 / 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
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