Diasporic subjectivity and cultural brokering in contemporary post-colonial literatures [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Igor Maver

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetto topico: Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Immigrants in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Postcolonialism in literature
• Altri autori: MaverIgor
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Chapter 01. "Not Belonging, but Longing": Shifts of Emphasis in Contemporary Diasporic Writing in English Canada; Chapter 02. Canadian New Diasporic Writing and Transnational/Borderland Literary Identities; Chapter 03. The Diaspora Writes Back: Cultural Memory and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost; Chapter 04. Translational Identities and the Émigré Experience; Chapter 05. Between the Island and the City: Cultural Brokerage in Caribbean-Canadian Short Fiction; Chapter 06. The Child of New Norcia: Alf Taylor's Poetry; Chapter 07. The Englishness of Maori Writing ; Chapter 08. The Afrosporic Migration of Genital Alterations to the New Europe: Trauma, the Law, and the InternetChapter 09. Diaspora in the Family: Father and Mother Figures in Canadian Theater; Chapter 10. Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal's Tourism: How to Exploit Diaspora and Live Happily Ever After; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Demonstrating that an intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must in our post-colonial world, the essays in this volume are a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and identities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Diasporic subjectivity and cultural brokering in contemporary post-colonial literatures
• ISBN: 1-282-49308-6; 9786612493089; 0-7391-2972-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778019803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II