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Translating Pain

Hron, Madelaine

2009,2010

Overview

In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives. Translating Pain fills this gap by examining literature from Muslim North Africa, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe to reveal the representation of immigrant suffering in fiction. Applying immigrant psychology to literary analysis, Madelaine Hron examines the ways in which different forms of physical and psychological pain are expressed in a wide variety of texts. She juxtaposes post-colonial and post-communist concerns about immigration, and contrasts Muslim world views with those of Caribbean creolité and post-Cold War ethics. Demonstrating how pain is translated into literature, she explores the ways in which it also shapes narrative, culture, history, and politics. A compelling and accessible study, Translating Pain is a groundbreaking work of literary and postcolonial studies.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press,University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
• Subject: 20th century / Cross cultural studies / Emigration and immigration / Emigration and immigration in literature / Fiction / History and criticism / Immigrants in literature / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / Minority authors / Psychological aspects / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Suffering in literature
• ISBN: 1442612193, 9781442612198, 9781442693241, 1442689498, 9780802099198, 080209919X, 9781442689497, 144269324X