Title: Translating pain
First published: 2009
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Minority authors, History and criticism, Emigration and immigration in literature, Suffering in literature, Immigrants in literature, Emigration and immigration, Cross-cultural studies, Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Roman, Auteurs issus des minorites, Histoire et critique, Emigration et immigration dans la litterature, Souffrance dans la litterature, Immigrants dans la litterature, Emigration et immigration, Etudes transculturelles, Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects, Auteurs issus des minorités, Émigration et immigration dans la littérature, Souffrance dans la littérature, Immigrants dans la littérature, Émigration et immigration, Études transculturelles, Emigrants and Immigrants, Literature, Culture, Pain, Psychological Stress
LC classification: PN491.5 .H76 2009