| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 204 pages) |
| Series |
Textxet : studies in comparative literature, 0927-5754, volume 96 |
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Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 96.
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| Contents |
Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Luis Alberto Urrea -- Comparative analysis |
| Summary |
This book builds on existing scholarship by leading theorists to offer an in-depth examination of an intriguing selection of writers. It explores how works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea represent a recalibration of how stories about marginalised migrants in the US and the UK are told - stories about their rights, their suffering, and their relationships to the citizens around them that reject victimhood and embrace just memories. The selected works reject and counter descriptions of the marginalised that are framed in terms of victimhood and passivity. As an alternative, they emphasise the need for just memories and narratives that not only accept personal agency, but also afford their characters opportunities to exercise power and control over their own lives and destinies, no matter how limited these may be |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Urrea, Luis Alberto -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948- fast |
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Urrea, Luis Alberto fast |
| Subject |
Marginality, Social, in literature.
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Victims in literature.
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Immigrants in literature.
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Transnationalism in literature.
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Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
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Agent (Philosophy) in literature
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Immigrants in literature
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Marginality, Social, in literature
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Transnationalism in literature
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Victims in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021026833 |
| ISBN |
9004469001 |
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9789004469006 |
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