y separately published work icon Projections of Paradise : Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature anthology   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Projections of Paradise : Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Amsterdam,
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Netherlands,
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Western Europe, Europe,: New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,:Rodopi , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Glimpses of Paradise : Hope in Short Stories of Migartion by M. G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner Hospital, Helga Ramsey-Kurz , single work criticism
'The migrant's presence in one place is always an absence from another. To capture this ambivalence, narratives of migration must oscillate between different locations. This paper is interested in the ways in which other-worlds either left or never reached by the migrant are discursively fenced off, as it were, against the remaining part of the tale of travelling to sustain not only a sense of movement beyond the suggested moments of arrival but also the hope by which this movement has been prompted. I will focus on three short stories describing three different stages in the drama of migration: "Leaving" by M. G. Vassanji, "Mammita's Garden Cove" by Cyril Dabydeen, and "After Long Absence" by Janette Turner Hospital.' Helga Ramsey-Kurz.
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