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Critical Identities in Contemporary Anglophone Diasporic Literature

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Françoise Král

    1. Université Paris 10, Nanterre, France

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Françoise Král
    Pages 1-10

  3. Paradigmatic Shifts and New Orientations in Diasporic Studies: Mapping the Site of Intervention

    • Françoise Král
    Pages 11-25

  4. Identity, Interstitiality and Diaspora

    • Françoise Král
    Pages 26-49

  5. Interstitiality, Authenticity, Postmodernity

    • Françoise Král
    Pages 50-74

  6. Shaky Ground, New Territorialities and the Diasporic Subject

    • Françoise Král
    Pages 75-98

  7. Disjunction, Ethics and the Diasporic Subject

    • Françoise Král
    Pages 99-124

  8. Language(s) and the Diasporic Subject

    • Françoise Král
    Pages 125-160

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 161-189
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The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Král takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analyses of writers including Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Monica Ali.

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'This is a work of admirable scope and scholarship: illuminating and thought-provoking, it sets out to address contending issues with an explicit and accessible approach.' - Mariangela Palladino, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Authors and Affiliations

  • Université Paris 10, Nanterre, France

    Françoise Král

About the author

FRANÇOISE KRÁL is Senior Lecturer in English at the Université Paris 10, France. She has published widely on postcolonial literature and theory, in particular on the literature of the south Asian diaspora as well as on travel narratives and the representation of historical figures in Australian literature. She is the editor of Re-presenting Otherness: Mapping the colonial 'self'/mapping the indigenous 'other' in the literatures of Australia and New Zealand.

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