Translating pain: immigrant suffering in literature and culture
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Main Author: Hron, Madelaine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press c2009 (2010)
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
"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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (300 p.)
ISBN:080209919X
1442689498
9780802099198
9781442689497

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