Akram Al Deek

Writing Displacement (eBook, PDF)

Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions

Studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst different migrant nationals from the end of WWII into the new millennium

Celebrates the freedom to be 'out of place' which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or pushed aside in cultural translation

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137592484
• Artikelnr.: 55431317

Autorenporträt

Akram Al Deek is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Madaba, Jordan. Al Deek is a Palestinian writer and lecturer in post-colonial studies, world literatures, and cultural and literary theory. Subsequent to his family's exile from Palestine, he was born in Jordan (German by nationality) and spent his entire twenties working and studying in England. Al Deek is currently working on his semi-autobiographical memoir, The Eucalyptus Tree: Episodes of Dispersals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Writing Displacement.- 2. Displacing Cultural Identity.- 3. The Windrush Generation: Remapping England and Its Literature.- 4. Masala Fish: Cultural Synthesis and Literary Adventuring.- 5. Promoting Cultural Diversity/Multiculturalism Post 9/11: A Conclusion.