Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing

Download or read book Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing written by J. Sell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity.