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Titolo: | 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 |
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