| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Contents |
"Perversely through pain" : immigrants and immigrant suffering -- "Suffering matters" : the translation and politics of pain -- "Mal partout" : bodily rhetoric in Maghrebi immigrant fiction -- "In the maim of the father" : disability and bodies of labour -- "Ni putes ni soumises?" : engendering doubly oppressed bodies -- "Pathologically sick" : metaphors of disease in beur texts -- "Zombification" : hybrid myth-uses of vodou from the West to Haiti -- "Zombi-fictions" : vodou myth-represented in Haitian immigrant fiction -- "Painless" fictions? : Czech exile and return -- "The suffering of return" : painful detours in Czech novels of return |
| Summary |
Annotation In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives. Translating Painfills this gap by examining literature from Muslim North Africa, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe to reveal the representation of immigrant suffering in fiction. Applying immigrant psychology to literary analysis, Madelaine Hron examines the ways in which different forms of physical and psychological pain are expressed in a wide variety of texts. She juxtaposes post-colonial and post-communist concerns about immigration, and contrasts Muslim world views with those of Caribbean creolité and post-Cold War ethics. Demonstrating how pain is translated into literature, she explores the ways in which it also shapes narrative, culture, history, and politics. A compelling and accessible study, Translating Painis a groundbreaking work of literary and postcolonial studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Suffering in literature.
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Immigrants in literature.
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Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Emigration and immigration in literature
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Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects
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Fiction
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Immigrants in literature
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Suffering in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442689497 |
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1442689498 |
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9781442612198 |
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1442612193 |
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