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  • Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 809/.93355
    書名/作者: Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing/ [edited by] Jonathan P.A. Sell.
    其他作者: Sell, Jonathan P. A.
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    附註: Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcal�a, 5 November 2010.
    標題: English fiction - Congresses. - History and criticism - 20th century
    標題: Metaphor in literature
    標題: Diasporas in literature - Congresses.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
    標題: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
    ISBN: 9780230358454 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230358454 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9786613440068
    ISBN: 661344006X
    內容註: Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora� -- Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam� -- Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah� -- 'My split self and my split world': Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid's Fiction� -- 'Beige outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience� -- Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island� -- Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life� -- Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips� -- Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie� -- White Teeth's Embodied Metaphors: the Moribund and the Living -- Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons -- References -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --.
    摘要、提要註: Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers, ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. Essays on Nadeem Aslam, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Mohsin Hamid, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Chris Stewart not only open up their private thought-worlds but also uncover structural metaphors of diasporic experience and show how metaphor, far from being a merely literary figure, may be used (and abused) for political purposes, for defining and preserving a sense of identity, and for surviving in an often hostile world. In the process, the diasporic subject itself emerges as metaphorical by nature, constantly seeking its own meaning as it shuttles back and forth in its imagination between recollected homeland and adopted home.
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