Migration Literature and Hybridity: The Different Speeds of Transcultural Change

ISBN-13: 9780230251465 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 257 str.

Sten Pultz Moslund

Opis

Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and hybridity literature, this book offers a way out of the theoretical deadlock of putting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity.

Recenzje

'The application of these migration and hybridity discourses in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier and V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival adds to the academic worth of the volume. Discursive notes to the chapters, an almost exhaustive bibilography on the subject and the brilliantly executed and meticulous index make it a gem of literary criticism.' - Routledge ABES June 2011

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: A CRITICAL RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH THE THEORISATION OF HYBRIDITY AND BECOMING Forces of Sameness and Difference in Organic Hybridity Forces of Sameness and Difference in Intentional Hybridity Part II: THE SPEEDS OF THE MIGRANT HERO AND HYBRIDITY DISCOURSES IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S JASMINE , JAMAL MAHJOUB'S THE CARRIER AND V.S. NAIPAUL'S THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL The Migrant Hero's Incredible Speed in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine Mongrel Speeds, Slow Danes and Telescopic Gazes in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier Fast and Slow Becomings in the Migrant's Vision in V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Sten Pultz Moslund is Associate Professor in the department of Comparative Literature in the Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.