"Life in the Diaspora is Often Held in a Strange Suspension": First-Generation Self-Fashioning in Hanif Kureishi's Narratives of Home and Return.
The author comments on Hanif Kureishi's work on the issues of race, ethnicity, nationhood and diaspora. She declares that Kureishi's scholarship lacks a fuller discussion of the role played by the first generation of female migrants. In addressing this issue, she explores the connection of Kureishi'...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Commonwealth Literature Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 5 - 26 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2006
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| Sumario: | The author comments on Hanif Kureishi's work on the issues of race, ethnicity, nationhood and diaspora. She declares that Kureishi's scholarship lacks a fuller discussion of the role played by the first generation of female migrants. In addressing this issue, she explores the connection of Kureishi's work between first-generation self hood and home in the context of national belonging. She focuses on older people and their gender, class and economic differences. |
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