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Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), 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.

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Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), 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.

Author Biography

ISABEL CARRERA SUÁREZ Professor in English, University of Oviedo, SpainSTEF CRAPS BOF-ZAP Research Professor in English Literature, Ghent University, BelgiumADRIANO ELIA Senior Lecturer in English, University of Rome 'Roma Tre', ItalyENRIQUE GALVÁN-ÁLVAREZ Doctoral Candidate, University of Alcalá, SpainFELICITY HAND Senior Lecturer in the English Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, SpainRUTH MAXEY Lecturer in Modern American Literature, School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UKSTEPHEN MORTON Senior Lecturer in English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, UKSOFÍA MUÑOZ-VALDIVIESO Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Malaga, SpainCHRIS WEEDON Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK

Table of Contents

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

Review

'A lively, varied and contentious contribution to the field' - James Procter, Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature, University of Newcastle, UK

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'A lively, varied and contentious contribution to the field' - James Procter, Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature, University of Newcastle, UK

Details ISBN1349339563 Language English ISBN-10 1349339563 ISBN-13 9781349339563 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title METAPHOR & DIASPORA IN CONTEMP Media Book Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-01-01 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 226 UK Release Date 2012-01-01 AU Release Date 2012-01-01 NZ Release Date 2012-01-01 Author J. Sell Illustrations XII, 226 p. Edited by J. Sell Edition Description 1st ed. 2012 Alternative 9780230314221 DEWEY 809.93355 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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