Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing
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Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing

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Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing

About this book

Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780230314221
eBook ISBN
9780230358454
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora
  10. 1 Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam
  11. 2 Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah
  12. 3 ‘My split self and my split world’: Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction
  13. 4 ‘Beige outlaws’: Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience
  14. 5 Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy’s Small Island
  15. 6 Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul’s Half a Life
  16. 7 Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips
  17. 8 Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie
  18. 9 White Teeth’s Embodied Metaphors: The Moribund and the Living
  19. 10 Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart’s Driving Over Lemons
  20. References
  21. Index