Translating pain
Subtitle: immigrant suffering in literature and culture
By: Madelaine Hron.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780802099198
Subjects: Fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Suffering in literature; Immigrants in literature; Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Description: "In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives. Translating Pain fills this gap by examining literature from Muslim North Africa, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe to reveal the representation of immigrant suffering in fiction.

Applying immigrant psychology to literary analysis, Madelaine Hron examines the ways in which different forms of physical and psychological pain are expressed in a wide variety of texts. She juxtaposes post-colonial and post-communist concerns about immigration, and contrasts Muslim world views with those of Caribbean creoliti and post-Cold War ethics. Demonstrating how pain is translated into literature, she explores the ways in which it also shapes narrative, culture, history, and politics.

A compelling and accessible study, Translating Pain is a groundbreaking work of literary and postcolonial studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Perversely through pain" : immigrants and immigrant suffering; title: "Suffering matters" : the translation and politics of pain; title: "Mal partout" : bodily rhetoric in Maghrebi immigrant fiction; title: "In the maim of the father" : disability and bodies of labour; title: "Ni putes ni soumises?" : engendering doubly oppressed bodies; title: "Pathologically sick" : metaphors of disease in beur texts; title: "Zombification" : hybrid myth-uses of vodou from the West to Haiti; title: "Zombi-fictions" : vodou myth-represented in Haitian immigrant fiction; title: "Painless" fictions? : Czech exile and return; title: "The suffering of return" : painful detours in Czech novels of return.