Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing - by J Sell (Hardcover)

About the Book

Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Alcalaa, 5 November 2010.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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

About the Author

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