Home, identity, and mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction / / Jopi Nyman.

• Superior document: Textxet ; 59
• Author: Nyman, Jopi, 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 59.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This innovative volume discusses the significance of home and global mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction written in English. Through analyses of central diasporic and migrant writers in the United Kingdom and the United States, the timely volume exposes the importance of home and its reconstr...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Diaspora, Home, Writing
• 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
• 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.