Displacement, memory, and travel in contemporary migrant writing / Jopi Nyman.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Textxet : studies in comparative literature ; volume 83Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill / Rodopi, 2017.Description: viii, 251 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9789004342057
- 9789004342064
- 0927-5754
- English literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- Immigrants' writings, English -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- 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
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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.
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