Displacement, memory, and travel in contemporary migrant writing /
Nyman, Jopi, 1966-
Displacement, memory, and travel in contemporary migrant writing / Jopi Nyman. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill / Rodopi, 2017. - viii, 251 p. ; 25 cm. - Textxet : studies in comparative literature ; volume 83 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. Refugees and Displaced Migrants. Introduction to Part 1; Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration; Mapping Refugee Spaces in Simao Kikamba's Going Home; Transnational Migrant Identity in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier; Borders and Transitive Identities in Jamal Mahjoub's "Last Thoughts on the Medusa" -- Part 2. Memories of Migration. Introduction to Part 2; Home, Memory, and Identity in the Culinary Memoirs by Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber; Migration and Melancholia in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrims Way; Transnational Spaces, Identities, and Memories in Caryl Phillips' Dancing in the Dark.
9789004342057 (hbk) 9789004342064 (ebk)
0927-5754
English literature--History and criticism.--Minority authors
Immigrants' writings, English--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--Minority authors
Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Memory in literature.
Travel in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Cultural fusion in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
820.992 / Q7
Displacement, memory, and travel in contemporary migrant writing / Jopi Nyman. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill / Rodopi, 2017. - viii, 251 p. ; 25 cm. - Textxet : studies in comparative literature ; volume 83 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. Refugees and Displaced Migrants. Introduction to Part 1; Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration; Mapping Refugee Spaces in Simao Kikamba's Going Home; Transnational Migrant Identity in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier; Borders and Transitive Identities in Jamal Mahjoub's "Last Thoughts on the Medusa" -- Part 2. Memories of Migration. Introduction to Part 2; Home, Memory, and Identity in the Culinary Memoirs by Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber; Migration and Melancholia in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrims Way; Transnational Spaces, Identities, and Memories in Caryl Phillips' Dancing in the Dark.
9789004342057 (hbk) 9789004342064 (ebk)
0927-5754
English literature--History and criticism.--Minority authors
Immigrants' writings, English--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--Minority authors
Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Memory in literature.
Travel in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Cultural fusion in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
820.992 / Q7