عنوان

Writing displacement :

(Number (ISBN

1137580917

(Number (ISBN

9781137580917

Erroneous ISBN

9721137592484

Erroneous ISBN

9781137592484

Erroneous ISBN

9781137592491

Title Proper

Writing displacement :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

home and identity in contemporary post-colonial English fiction /

First Statement of Responsibility

Akram Al Deek.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

204 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Text of Note

"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"--

Text of Note

"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"--

Collective memory in literature.

Displacement (Psychology) in literature.

English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Exiles' writings-- History and criticism.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Immigrants' writings, English-- History and criticism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Collective memory in literature.

Collective memory in literature.

Diaspora.

Displacement (Psychology) in literature.

Displacement.

English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

English fiction-- 21st century-- History and criticism.

English fiction.

Exiles' writings.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Identity.

Immigrants' writings, English.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Caribbean & Latin American.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Middle Eastern.

Postcolonial literatures.

Postcolonialism in literature.

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Edition

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Book number

Class number

System Code

Al Deek, Akram,1984-

Date of Transaction

20200822155949.0

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[Book]

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