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: 2012-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349339563

DOI: 10.1057/9780230358454

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 226