Writing displacement : home and identity in contemporary post-colonial English fiction / Akram Al Deek.
2016
PR888.I3 A4 2016eb
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Title
Writing displacement : home and identity in contemporary post-colonial English fiction / Akram Al Deek.
ISBN
9781137592484 (electronic book)
1137592486 (electronic book)
9781137580917
1137580917
1137592486 (electronic book)
9781137580917
1137580917
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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English
Description
1 online resource (204 pages)
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PR888.I3 A4 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.91409353
Summary
"Using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a critical tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions, Writing Displacement studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst different migrant nationals subsequent to the end of WWII and into the start of the new millennium. This book troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging and celebrates the freedom to be 'out of place' which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or 'pushed aside' in cultural translation. Displacement falls somewhere between nationalism and nomadology, challenging racism and mental ghettoisation; writing displacement opens doors for critical and aesthetic distance and for balancing the central authority between past and present, tradition and modernity. From Sam Selvon to Salman Rushdie and Monica Ali, Edward Said to Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, Writing Displacement reroutes filiation to affiliation"-- Provided by publisher.
"Using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions, Writing Displacement studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst different migrant nationals from the end of WWII into the new millennium"-- Provided by publisher.
"Using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions, Writing Displacement studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst different migrant nationals from the end of WWII into the new millennium"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
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Table of Contents
Placing Displacement: An Introduction
Writing Displacement
Displacing Cultural Identity
The Windrush Generation: Remapping England and Its Literature
Masala Fish: Cultural Synthesis and Literary Adventuring
Promoting Cultural Diversity/Multiculturalism Post-9/11: A Conclusion.
Writing Displacement
Displacing Cultural Identity
The Windrush Generation: Remapping England and Its Literature
Masala Fish: Cultural Synthesis and Literary Adventuring
Promoting Cultural Diversity/Multiculturalism Post-9/11: A Conclusion.