Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349339563
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2012
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.