Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing

Sell, J.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-01-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230314221

DOI: 10.1057/9780230358454

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 226