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Autore: | Hron Madelaine |
Titolo: | Translating pain : immigrant suffering in literature and culture / / Madelaine Hron |
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 |
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