Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing  [electronic resource] / 
[edited by] Jonathan P.A. Sell. 
 - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ;  New York :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2012. 
 - xii, 239 p. 
<br/><br/> Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcala, 5 November 2010.  Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : metaphor and diaspora / Jonathan P.A. Sell -- Tropes of diasporic life in the work of Nadeem Aslam / Chris Weedon -- Becoming foreign : tropes of migrant identity in three novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah / Felicity Hand -- 'My split self and my split world' : troping identity in Mohsin Hamid's fiction / Adriano Elia -- 'Beige outlaws' : Hanif Kureishi, miscegenation and diasporic experience / Ruth Maxey -- Metaphors of belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island / Sofia Munoz-Valdivieso -- Ancestry, uncertainty and dislocation in V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life / Enrique Galvan Alvarez -- Jewish/postcolonial diasporas in the work of Caryl Phillips / Stef Craps -- Metaphors of the secular in the fiction of Salman Rushdie / Stephen Morton -- White Teeth's embodied metaphors : the moribund and the living / Isabel Carrera Suarez -- Orpheus in the Alpujarras : metaphors of arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons / Jonathan P.A. Sell. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction--History and criticism--20th century--Congresses.<br/>Metaphor in literature--Congresses.<br/>Diasporas in literature--Congresses.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR878.M475  / M47 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.93355