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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959486703321

Autore

Kral Francoise

Titolo

Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature / / by Françoise Král

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

9786612533440

9781282533448

1282533444

9780230244429

0230244424

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

820.9920691209045

Soggetti

Literature

Fiction

Literature, Modern-20th century

British literature

Postcolonial/World Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

British and Irish Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Paradigmatic Shifts and New Orientations in Diasporic Studies: Mapping the Site of Intervention; 2 Identity, Interstitiality and Diaspora; 3 Interstitiality, Authenticity, Postmodernity; 4 Shaky Ground, New Territorialities and the Diasporic Subject; 5 Disjunction, Ethics and the Diasporic Subject; 6 Language(s) and the Diasporic Subject; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Král takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analyses of writers including Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and



Monica Ali.