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 ...
The 'new' literatures have most commonly been seen as a staging post en route to the current 'post-colonial' era. Yet these literatures and the diverse cultural histories they represent are older than such recent interpretations of them. This collection of essays investigates ways in which we can return to 'reading' these 'new' literatures without ...
The figure of the diasporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen in the West as the "Everyman" of the late modern period, a cultural traveller who can traverse national, political and ethnic boundaries. This text seeks not only to place individual works of now world famous writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon or Hanif ...
The figure of the diasporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen in the West as the "Everyman" of the late modern period, a cultural traveller who can traverse national, political and ethnic boundaries. This text seeks not only to place individual works of now world famous writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon or Hanif ...
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