Writing Displacement: Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction

By Akram Al Deek

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349953199
• ISBN13: 9781349953196
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"