| Writing Displacement: Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Al Deek, Akram (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349953199 ISBN-13: 9781349953196 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 801 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.56 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst migrant nationals subsequent to the end of WWII, 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. From Sam Selvon to Salman Rushdie and Monica Ali, Edward Said to Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, the author here reroutes filiation to affiliation. The text troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging; it 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, without falling into mental ghettoisation. |