| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 277 pages). |
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Cross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 132 |
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Cross/cultures ; 132.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Some Uses of Paradise; Revisiting Lost Gardens: The Expulsion from Childhood in the Writings of Penelope Lively; Kashmir by Way of London and New York: Projections of Paradise in Salman Rushdie and Agha Shahid Ali; Subverting the Tropical Paradise; The Search for Paradise: Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide; "But are we not all refugees from something?": Projections of Paradise in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef; Reconfigurations of "home as a mythic place of desire": Bernardine Evaristo's Soul Tourists. |
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The Paradise Within: Displacement, Memory and Nostalgia in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the SeaParadise Regained? The Harem in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood; The Scent of Paradise: Michael Ondaatje's "The Cinnamon Peeler"; Waters of Paradise: The English Patient; "I got raptures once, and I saw God": Shabine as Prophetic Shaman of Paradise in Derek Walcott's "The Schooner Flight"; "I feel the land": Contradictions of Place in Rudy Wiebe's Mennonite Novels. |
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Glimpses of Paradise: Hope in Short Stories of Migration by M.G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner HospitalNotes on Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
Paradise is commonly imagined as a place of departure or arrival, beginning and closure, permanent inhabitation of which, however much desired, is illusory. This makes it the dream of the traveller, the explorer, the migrant - hence, a trope recurrent in postcolonial writing, which is so centrally concerned with questions of displacement and belonging. Projections of Paradise documents this concern and demonstrates the indebtedness of writers as diverse as Salman Rushdie, Agha Shahid Ali, Cyril Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, Amitav Ghosh, James Goonewardene, Romesh Gunesekera, Abdulrazak Gurna. |
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Paradise in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Postcolonialism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Emigration and immigration in literature. (OCoLC)fst00908732
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Paradise in literature. (OCoLC)fst01052839
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Postcolonialism. (OCoLC)fst01073032
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Postcolonialism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01073035
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| Added Author |
Ramsey-Kurz, Helga.
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Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Projections of paradise. [S.l.] : Editions Rodopi B V, 2011 9042033339 (OCoLC)733230253 |
| ISBN |
9789401200332 (electronic bk.) |
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9401200335 (electronic bk.) |
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