Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing [Hardcover]

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.Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora  Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam  Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah  'My split self and my split world': Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid's Fiction  'Beige outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience  Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island  Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life  Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips  Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie  White Teeth's Embodied Metaphors: the Moribund and the Living Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons References

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

ISABEL CARRERA SU?REZ Professor in English, University of Oviedo, SpainSTEF CRAPS BOF-ZAP Research Professor in English Literature, Ghent University, BelgiumADRIANO ELIA Senior Lecturer in English, University of Rome 'Roma Tre', ItalyENRIQUE GALV?N-?LVAREZ Doctoral Candidate, University of Alcal?, SpainFELICITY HAND Senior Lecturer in the English Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, SpainRUTH MAXEY Lecturer in Modern American Literature, School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UKSTEPHEN MORTON Senior Lecturer in English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, UKSOF?A Ml#,