Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction

Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction
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Publisher : Rodopi
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9789042026902
ISBN-13 : 9042026901
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Book Synopsis Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction by : Jopi Nyman

Download or read book Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction written by Jopi Nyman and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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