Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing

Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity.

'A lively, varied and contentious contribution to the field' - James Procter, Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature, University of Newcastle, UK

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ISABEL CARRERA SUÁREZ Professor in English, University of Oviedo, Spain STEF CRAPS BOF-ZAP Research Professor in English Literature, Ghent University, Belgium ADRIANO ELIA Senior Lecturer in English, University of Rome 'Roma Tre', Italy ENRIQUE GALVÁN-ÁLVAREZ Doctoral Candidate, University of Alcalá, Spain FELICITY HAND Senior Lecturer in the English Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain RUTH MAXEY Lecturer in Modern American Literature, School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK STEPHEN MORTON Senior Lecturer in English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK SOFÍA MUÑOZ-VALDIVIESO Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Malaga, Spain CHRIS WEEDON Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK

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Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah 'My split self and my split world': Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid's Fiction 'Beige outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie White Teeth's Embodied Metaphors: the Moribund and the Living Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons References