Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora

   • Jonathan P. A. Sell

   Pages 1-19

3. Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam

   • Chris Weedon

   Pages 20-38

4. Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah

   • Felicity Hand

   Pages 39-58

5. ‘My split self and my split world’: Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction

   • Adriano Elia

   Pages 59-79

6. ‘Beige outlaws’: Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience

   • Ruth Maxey

   Pages 80-98

7. Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy’s Small Island

   • Sofía Muñoz-Valdivieso

   Pages 99-116

8. Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul’s Half a Life

   • Enrique Galván-Álvarez

   Pages 117-134

9. Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips

   • Stef Craps

   Pages 135-150

10. Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie

    • Stephen Morton

    Pages 151-169

11. White Teeth’s Embodied Metaphors: The Moribund and the Living

    • Isabel Carrera Suárez

    Pages 170-185

12. Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart’s Driving Over Lemons

    • Jonathan P. A. Sell

    Pages 186-204

13. Back Matter

    Pages 205-226

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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.

• fiction
• identity
• novel
• British and Irish Literature

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

• University of Alcalá, Spain

  Jonathan P. A. Sell

ISABEL CARRERA SUÁREZ Professor in English, University of Oviedo, Spain STEF CRAPS BOF-ZAP Research Professor in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium ADRIANO ELIA Senior Lecturer in English, University of Rome 'Roma Tre', Italy ENRIQUE GALVÁN-ÁLVAREZ Doctoral Candidate, University of Alcalá, Spain FELICITY HAND Senior Lecturer in the English Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain RUTH MAXEY Lecturer in Modern American Literature, School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK STEPHEN MORTON Senior Lecturer in English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK SOFÍA MUÑOZ-VALDIVIESO Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Malaga, Spain CHRIS WEEDON Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK

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