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