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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315358303321

Autore

Al Deek Akram

Titolo

Writing Displacement [[electronic resource] ] : Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction / / by Akram Al Deek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-59248-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 204 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004100LIT004120LIT004220

Disciplina

823.91409353

Soggetti

Middle Eastern literature

British literature

America—Literatures

Literature—History and criticism

Fiction

Literature—Philosophy

Middle Eastern Literature

British and Irish Literature

North American Literature

Literary History

Literary Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Writing Displacement -- 2. Displacing Cultural Identity -- 3. The Windrush Generation: Remapping England and Its Literature -- 4. Masala Fish: Cultural Synthesis and Literary Adventuring -- 5. Promoting Cultural Diversity/Multiculturalism Post 9/11: A Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst migrant nationals after WWII, using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions. From Sam Selvon to Salman Rushdie and Edward Said to Homi Bhabha, the author here reroutes filiation to affiliation. The text troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging; it celebrates the freedom



to be 'out of place' which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or pushed aside in cultural translation, without falling into mental ghettoisation.