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"Using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a critical 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 subsequent to the end of WWII and into the start of the new millennium. This book troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging and celebrates the freedom to be 'out of place' which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or 'pushed aside'…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2017Palgrave Macmillan · 213 pages · 9781349953196
- Hardcover · English · 2016Palgrave Macmillan · 224 pages · 9781137580917
- Other · English · 2016Palgrave Macmillan · 9781137592484
Immigrants' writings, EnglishHistory and criticismExiles' writingsCollective memory in literatureEnglish fictionDisplacement (Psychology) in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern