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020 _a9780230314221 (hardback)
082 _a809.93
_bSEL
245 _aMetaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing /
_c[edited by] Jonathan P.A. Sell.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ;
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2012.
_aNew York :
300 _ap. cm.:
_c22 CM.
500 _aPapers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalá, 5 November 2010.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 _aEnglish fiction
_vCongresses.
_xHistory and criticism
_y20th century
650 _aMetaphor in literature
_vCongresses.
650 _aDiasporas in literature
_vCongresses.
650 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General
650 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
650 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
653 _aLiterature displaying specific features
700 _aSell, Jonathan P. A.
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