Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing / / edited by Jonathan P.A. Sell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778934703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-44006-7; 9786613440068; 0-230-35845-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 pages)
• Classificazione: LIT008000LIT004120LIT004220
• Disciplina: 809.93355; 809/.93355; 823.9209
• Soggetti: Literature; Literature—Philosophy; Culture—Study and teaching; Literature, Modern—20th century; Oriental literature; British literature; Postcolonial/World Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Twentieth-Century Literature; Asian Literature; British and Irish Literature; e-kirjat
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalá, 5 November 2010.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.