LEADER 05523nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910811372603321 005 20230725031415.0 010 $a1-283-16221-0 010 $a9786613162212 010 $a94-012-0033-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401200332 035 $a(CKB)2670000000093667 035 $a(EBL)713116 035 $a(OCoLC)729167184 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525078 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12213620 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525078 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10488314 035 $a(PQKB)10154847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC713116 035 $a(OCoLC)733230253 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401200332 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL713116 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477206 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316221 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000093667 100 $a20110706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aProjections of paradise$b[electronic resource] $eideal elsewheres in postcolonial migrant literature /$fedited by Helga Ramsey-Kurz with Geetha Ganapathy-Dore? 210 $aAmsterdam $cRodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 1 $aCross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ;$v132 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3333-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tRevisiting Lost Gardens: The Expulsion from Childhood in the Writings of Penelope Lively /$rVera Alexander -- $tKashmir by Way of London and New York: Projections of Paradise in Salman Rushdie and Agha Shahid Ali /$rGeetha Ganapathy?Doré -- $tSubverting the Tropical Paradise /$rGerd Bayer -- $tThe Search for Paradise: Amitav Ghosh?s The Hungry Tide /$rEvelyne Hanquart?Turner -- $t?But are we not all refugees from something??: Projections of Paradise in Romesh Gunesekera?s Reef /$rSusanne Pichler -- $tReconfigurations of ?home as a mythic place of desire?: Bernardine Evaristo?s Soul Tourists /$rPetra Tournay?Theodotou -- $tThe Paradise Within: Displacement, Memory and Nostalgia in Abdulrazak Gurnah?s By the Sea /$rSofía Muñoz Valdivieso -- $tParadise Regained?: The Harem in Fatima Mernissi?s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood /$rMarta Mamet?Michalkiewicz -- $tThe Scent of Paradise: Michael Ondaatje?s ?The Cinnamon Peeler? /$rUlla Ratheiser -- $tWaters of Paradise: The English Patient /$rUrsula Kluwick -- $t?I got raptures once, and I saw God?: Shabine as Prophetic Shaman of Paradise in Derek Walcott?s ?The Schooner Flight? /$rDerek Coyle -- $t?I feel the land?: Contradictions of Place in Rudy Wiebe?s Mennonite Novels /$rJanne Korkka -- $tGlimpses of Paradise: Hope in Short Stories of Migration by M.G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner Hospital /$rHelga Ramsey?Kurz -- $tNotes on Contributors -- $tIndex. 330 $aParadise is commonly imagined as a place of departure or arrival, beginning and closure, permanent inhabitation of which, however much desired, is illusory. This makes it the dream of the traveller, the explorer, the migrant ? hence, a trope recurrent in postcolonial writing, which is so centrally concerned with questions of displacement and belonging. Projections of Paradise documents this concern and demonstrates the indebtedness of writers as diverse as Salman Rushdie, Agha Shahid Ali, Cyril Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, Amitav Ghosh, James Goonewardene, Romesh Gunesekera, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Janette Turner Hospital, Penelope Lively, Fatima Mernissi, Michael Ondaatje, Shyam Selvadurai, M.G. Vassanji, and Rudy Wiebe to strikingly similar myths of fulfilment. In writing, directly or indirectly, about the experience of migration, all project paradises as places of origin or destination, as homes left or not yet found, as objects of nostalgic recollection or hopeful anticipation. Yet in locating such places, quite specifically, in Egypt, Zanzibar, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, the Sundarbans, Canada, the Caribbean, Queensland, Morocco, Tuscany, Russia, the Arctic, the USA, and England, they also subvert received fantasies of paradise as a pleasurable land rich with natural beauty. Projections of Paradise explores what happens to these fantasies and what remains of them as postcolonial writings call them into question and expose the often hellish realities from which popular dreams of ideal elsewheres are commonly meant to provide an escape. Contributors: Vera Alexander, Gerd Bayer, Derek Coyle, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Ursula Kluwick, Janne Korkka, Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz, Sofia Muñoz-Valdieso, Susanne Pichler, Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Ulla Ratheiser, Petra Tournay-Thedotou. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v132. 606 $aParadise in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 606 $aEmigration and immigration in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism 615 0$aParadise in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism. 676 $a820.9 701 $aRamsey-Kurz$b Helga$01643784 701 $aGanapathy-Dore?$b Geetha$01133201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811372603321 996 $aProjections of paradise$93989258 997 $aUNINA