Migration Literature and Hybridity

The Different Speeds of Transcultural Change

Gebonden Engels 2010 9780230251465
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Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and hybridity literature, this book offers a way out of the theoretical deadlock of putting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity.

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ISBN13:9780230251465
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: A CRITICAL RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH THE THEORISATION OF HYBRIDITY AND BECOMING Forces of Sameness and Difference in Organic Hybridity Forces of Sameness and Difference in Intentional Hybridity Part II: THE SPEEDS OF THE MIGRANT HERO AND HYBRIDITY DISCOURSES IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S JASMINE , JAMAL MAHJOUB'S THE CARRIER AND V.S. NAIPAUL'S THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL The Migrant Hero's Incredible Speed in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine Mongrel Speeds, Slow Danes and Telescopic Gazes in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier Fast and Slow Becomings in the Migrant's Vision in V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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