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01 02 Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers, 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. Essays on Nadeem Aslam, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Mohsin Hamid, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Chris Stewart not only open up their private thought-worlds but also uncover structural metaphors of diasporic experience and show how metaphor, far from being a merely literary figure, may be used (and abused) for political purposes, for defining and preserving a sense of identity, and for surviving in an often hostile world. In the process, the diasporic subject itself emerges as metaphorical by nature, constantly seeking its own meaning as it shuttles back and forth in its imagination between recollected homeland and adopted home. 02 02 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. 31 02 This is a reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity 08 02 'A lively, varied and contentious contribution to the field' - James Procter, Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature, University of Newcastle, UK 19 02 Focuses on a very popular area of literary study – uses of metaphor in contemporary 'diasporic' writing Discusses a range of well-studied and popular writers, including Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips Will find a significant audience among students and academics of postcolonial writing, migrant fiction, and postwar British literature Looks at metaphor and migrancy in the work of contemporary writers 04 02 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 13 02 JONATHAN P. A. SELL lectures in the Department of Modern Philology of the University of Alcalá, Spain. He is author of Rhetoric and Wonder in English Renaissance Travel Writing, 1560-1613 (Ashgate 2006), Allusion, Identity and Community in Recent British Writing (Universidad de Alcalá, 2011) and Conocer a Shakespeare (Ediciones del Laberinto, 2011).

This volume contains twelve contributions on the urban development of the Near East and North Africa in Late Antiquity. On the one hand the authors consider historical and cultural aspects of the region. A comprehensive section of illustrations of new archaeological material and its interpretation then form the second focus of this volume of papers.

This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Université Paris VII in June 2000. The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya, Coptic Egyptian, Berber, Hausa, Beja, Somali, Gamo). The articles discuss new solutions to familiar questions such as the free state/construct state alternation of nouns, the Semitic template system, and the morphosyntax of nominal and verbal plurality. Ten of the papers center on morphology, especially the relation of phonology to syntax and morphology; others address questions at the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface; two papers also offer comparative and historical perspectives. Taken as a whole, the papers provide an accurate picture of the state of current research in Afroasiatic linguistics, containing important new data and new analyses. Given its coverage, the book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Afroasiatic languages and theoretical linguistics.