| Description |
xvii, 284 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm |
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1. Geography, Literature and Migration / Paul White -- 2. Literary Reflections on Irish Migration in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Patrick Duffy -- 3. From Pappkoffer to Pluralism: Migrant writing in the German Federal Republic / Sabine Fischer and Moray McGowan -- 4. 'Rivers to Cross': Exile and transformation in the Caribbean migration novels of George Lamming / Claire Alexander -- 5. Negotiating Identity in the Metropolis: Generational differences in South Asian British fiction / Suresht Renjen Bald -- 6. Perceptions of Place among Writers of Algerian Immigrant Origin in France / Alec Hargreaves -- 7. From Francite to Creolite: French West Indian literature comes home / Robert Aldrich -- 8. Pied-Noir Literature: The writing of a migratory elite / Rosemarie Jones -- 9. Friulani Nel Mondo: The literature of an Italian emigrant region / Federica Scarpa |
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10. Sunday Too Far Away: Images of emigrant existence in the literature of Slovenes in the United States, Canada and Australia / Jerneja Petric -- 11. Migration in Contemporary Maltese Fiction / Arnold Cassola -- 12. Literary Perspectives on Jews in Britain in the Early Twentieth Century / Stanley Waterman and Marlena Schmool -- 13. Return Migration in American Novels of the 1920s and 1930s / Neil Larry Shumsky -- 14. Birds of Passage or Squawking Ducks: Writing across generations of Japanese-Canadian literature / Audrey Kobayashi -- 15. Vulcan's Brood: Spatial narratives of migration in Southern Africa / Jonathan Crush -- 16. Far Cities and Silver Countries: Migration to Australia in fiction and film / Roy Jones -- 17. In Samoan Worlds: Culture, migration, identity and Albert Wendt / John Connell |
| Summary |
Writing has always been a means of making crossings and forging connections between different worlds. Some writers have found it hard to reach an international audience, however: for decades the western literary establishment has been all too ready to sideline writers with mixed cultural or migrant backgrounds as 'marginal', 'multicultural' or simply 'other'. Since its foundation in 1984 the literary magazine Wasafiri has focused on the idea of the writer as someone who transports the imagination beyond the maps of narrowly defined borders, and has promoted a range of new and established voices as well as signposting new waves in contemporary literature worldwide. To celebrate Wasafiri's twentieth anniversary, Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the magazine. Conducted by a wide constituency of distinguished critics, writers and journalists, the interviews offer a unique insight into the views and work of a remarkable array of acclaimed authors. They also chart a slow but certain cultural shift: those once seen as 'other' have not only won many of the establishment's most revered literary prizes but have also become central figures in contemporary literature, writing across and into all our real and imagined worlds. With an introductory comment by Susheila Nasta, editor of Wasafiri, this collection is essential reading for all those interested in contemporary literature |
| Analysis |
Literature Special subjects Migration |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
A copy of this title was donated by Professor Ron Klein |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Emigration and immigration -- Literary collections.
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Immigrants' writings -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Migration -- Literary collections
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Migration, Internal -- Literary collections.
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Migration, Internal, in literature.
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| Author |
Connell, John, 1946-
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King, Russell, 1945-
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White, Paul E., 1950-
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| LC no. |
95003573 |
| ISBN |
0415105293 |
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0415105307 (paperback) |
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