Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing
By: [edited by] Jonathan P.A. Sell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230314221
Subjects: Diasporas in literature; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; Congresses; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern; Metaphor in literature
Notes: Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalá, 5 November 2010.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : metaphor and diaspora / Jonathan P.A. Sell; title: Tropes of diasporic life in the work of Nadeem Aslam / Chris Weedon; title: Becoming foreign : tropes of migrant identity in three novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah / Felicity Hand; title: 'My split self and my split world' : troping identity in Mohsin Hamid's fiction / Adriano Elia; title: 'Beige outlaws' : Hanif Kureishi, miscegenation and diasporic experience / Ruth Maxey; title: Metaphors of belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island / Sofía Muñóz-Valdivieso; title: Ancestry, uncertainty and dislocation in V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life / Enrique Galván Álvarez; title: Jewish/postcolonial diasporas in the work of Caryl Phillips / Stef Craps; title: Metaphors of the secular in the fiction of Salman Rushdie / Stephen Morton; title: White Teeth's embodied metaphors : the moribund and the living / Isabel Carrera Suárez; title: Orpheus in the Alpujarras : metaphors of arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons / Jonathan P.A. Sell.