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Home, identity, and mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction

Nyman, Jopi, 1966-

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\"This innovative volume discusses the significance of home and global mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction written in English. Through analyses of central diasporic and migrant writers in the United Kingdom and the United States, the timely volume exposes the importance of home and its reconstruction in diasporic literature in the era of globalization and increasing transnational mobility. Through wide-ranging case studies dealing with a variety of black British and ethnic American writers, Home, identity, and mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction shows how new identities and homes are constructed in the migrants' new homelands. The volume examines how diasporic novels inscribe hybridity and multiplicity in formerly uniform spaces and subvert traditional understandings of nation, citizenship, and history. Particular emphasis is on the ways in which diasporic fictions appropriate and transform traditional literary genres such as the Bildungsroman and the picaresque to explore the questions of migration and transformation. The authors discussed include Caryl Phillips, Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Hari Kunzru, Kamila Shamsie, Benjamin Zephaniah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cynthia Kadohata, Ana Castillo, Diana Abu-Jaber, and Bharati Mukherjee. The volume is of particular interest to all scholars and students of post-colonial and ethnic literatures in English.\"--Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Subject: 1900-2099 / Home in literature. / Emigration and immigration in literature. / English fiction 20th century History and criticism. / English fiction 21st century History and criticism. / American fiction 20th century History and criticism. / American fiction 21st century History and criticism. / American fiction. / English fiction. / Englisch. / Postkoloniale Literatur. / Migrantenliteratur. / Heimat. / Identität. / Mobilität. / Migration Motiv Roman englischer Commonwealth. / Mobilität Motiv Roman englischer Commonwealth. / Heimat Motiv Roman englischer Commonwealth. / Roman englischer Commonwealth Motiv Migration. / Roman englischer Commonwealth Motiv Mobilität. / Roman englischer Commonwealth Motiv Heimat. / Hembygden i litteraturen. / Migration i litteraturen.
• ISBN: 9042026901, 9789042026902, 9789042026919, 904202691X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR830.H65 N96 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE