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Writing Displacement

Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction

By (author) Akram Al Deek
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Published: 5th Feb 2016
Dimensions: w 140mm h 216mm d 14mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN-10: 1137580917
ISBN-13: 9781137580917
Barcode No: 9781137580917
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Synopsis
Uses the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions, Writing Displacement studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst different migrant nationals from the end of WWII into the new millennium.

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yet still under-discoursed, displacement in Akram Al Deek's book is analysed across a range of post-colonial hybridities, none more authentically than that inflected by his own experience as a third generation Palestinian exile, making Writing Displacement a compelling read." - Geoffery Nash, Senior Lecturer, Sunderland University, UK, and author of From Empire to Orient and Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

"Akram Al Deek's study of the literature of displacement is a bold attempt to read two important generations of Black British writers through the template of the Palestinian experience. Against any fashionable predilection for seeing the displaced as necessarily nomadic, Al Deek argues for the complexity of the forms of identity and attachment that follow from the fact of displacement as they are articulated by writers originating in Africa, the Caribbean, India, and Pakistan." - Patrick Williams, Professor, Nottingham Trent University, UK, and author of Edward Said and Post-colonial Theory and Literatures