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Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland

Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3030410528
ISBN13: 9783030410520
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 1 2020
Pages: 211
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
1. Introduction: Migration, Mobility and the Redefinition of National Literatures in a Global Context.- 2. A Cosmopolitan Revision of the Postcolonial 'Home' in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Foreigners.- 3. From Exilic to Mobile Identities: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin and the Cosmopolitanisation of Irish Reality.- 4. 'Memories of lost things': Narratives of Afropolitan Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea and Gravel Heart.- 5. Against the Fear of Complexity: Ethical and Aesthetic Engagement with De-racialising the Muslim Migrant in Elif Shafak's Honour.- 6. Solidarity through the Bare Life of Migrants and noeuds de mémoire in Rose Tremain's The Colour and The Gustav Sonata.- 7. 'A map of bird migration': Redefinitions of National Identity through Transnational Mobility and Multidirectional Memory in Evelyn Conlon's Not the Same Sky.- 8. Concluding Remarks: Timespace and Affective Networks in Contemporary Fictions of Migration.

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