Translating pain : immigrant suffering in literature and culture / / Madelaine Hron
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| Autore: |
Hron Madelaine
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| Titolo: |
Translating pain : immigrant suffering in literature and culture / / Madelaine Hron
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809.3/9353 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism |
| Emigration and immigration in literature | |
| Suffering in literature | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "Perversely through pain" : immigrants and immigrant suffering -- "Suffering matters" : the translation and politics of pain -- "Mal partout" : bodily rhetoric in Maghrebi immigrant fiction -- "In the maim of the father" : disability and bodies of labour -- "Ni putes ni soumises?" : engendering doubly oppressed bodies -- "Pathologically sick" : metaphors of disease in beur texts -- "Zombification" : hybrid myth-uses of vodou from the West to Haiti -- "Zombi-fictions" : vodou myth-represented in Haitian immigrant fiction -- "Painless" fictions? : Czech exile and return -- "The suffering of return" : painful detours in Czech novels of return. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Annotation |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Translating pain |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9324-X |
| 1-4426-8949-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781120203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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