Writing Displacement [[electronic resource] ] : Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction / / by Akram Al Deek

• Autore: Al Deek Akram
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 204 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.91409353
• Soggetto topico: Middle Eastern literature; British literature; America—Literatures; Literature—History and criticism; Fiction; Literature—Philosophy; Middle Eastern Literature; British and Irish Literature; North American Literature; Literary History; Literary Theory
• Classificazione: LIT004100LIT004120LIT004220
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Writing Displacement -- 2. Displacing Cultural Identity -- 3. The Windrush Generation: Remapping England and Its Literature -- 4. Masala Fish: Cultural Synthesis and Literary Adventuring -- 5. Promoting Cultural Diversity/Multiculturalism Post 9/11: A Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst migrant nationals after WWII, using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions. From Sam Selvon to Salman Rushdie and Edward Said to Homi Bhabha, the author here reroutes filiation to affiliation. The text troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging; it celebrates the freedom to be 'out of place' which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or pushed aside in cultural translation, without falling into mental ghettoisation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing Displacement
• ISBN: 1-137-59248-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910315358303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II