Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction

ISBN: 9789042026902 出版年：2009 页码：248 Jopi Nyman Brill

Acknowledgements Introduction: Diaspora, Home, Writing Part One: Black British Perspectives From Black Britain to the Caribbean: The Return of the (Im)Migrant in Caryl Phillips's A State of Independence Exile, History, and Migrancy in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier The Hybridization of Europe in Mike Phillips's A Shadow of Myself The Politics of Self-Making in Post-Colonial Fiction: The Bildung of Pretty Bobby in Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist Narratives of Diaspora and Trauma in Kamila Shamsie's Salt and Saffron Britain, "Home", and Diaspora in the Refugee Novels by Benjamin Zephaniah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Caryl Phillips Part Two: Diasporic Americans The Hybridity of the Asian American Subject in Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World Migration and Diaspora in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia Writing Diasporic Identity in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent Transnational Travel in Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters Home, Transnationalism, and Transformation in Bharati Mukherjee's Leave It to Me Conclusion Bibliography Index