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Format: 1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-4426-9324-X , 1-4426-8949-8

Content: Annotation

Note: "Perversely through pain" : immigrants and immigrant suffering -- "Suffering matters" : the translation and politics of pain -- "Mal partout" : bodily rhetoric in Maghrebi immigrant fiction -- "In the maim of the father" : disability and bodies of labour -- "Ni putes ni soumises?" : engendering doubly oppressed bodies -- "Pathologically sick" : metaphors of disease in beur texts -- "Zombification" : hybrid myth-uses of vodou from the West to Haiti -- "Zombi-fictions" : vodou myth-represented in Haitian immigrant fiction -- "Painless" fictions? : Czech exile and return -- "The suffering of return" : painful detours in Czech novels of return. , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4426-1219-3

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-9919-X

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

DOI: 10.3138/9781442689497

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689497

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442689497

Content: Applying immigrant psychology to literary analysis, Madelaine Hron examines the ways in which different forms of physical and psychological pain are expressed in a wide variety of texts.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , An Affective Introduction -- , Part I. Translating Immigrant Suffering -- , 1. ‘Perversely through Pain’: Immigrants and Immigrant Suffering -- , 2. ‘Suffering Matters’: The Translation and Politics of Pain -- , Part II. Embodying Pain: Maghrebi Immigrant Texts -- , 3. ‘Mal Partout’: Bodily Rhetoric in Maghrebi Immigrant Fiction -- , 4. ‘In the Maim of the Father’: Disability and Bodies of Labour -- , 5. ‘Ni Putes Ni Soumises?’ Engendering Doubly Oppressed Bodies -- , 6. ‘Pathologically Sick’: Metaphors of Disease in Beur Texts -- , Part III. Affective Cultural Translation: Haitian Vodou -- , 7. ‘Zombification’: Hybrid Myth- Uses of Vodou from the West to Haiti -- , 8. ‘Zombi-Fictions’: Vodou Myth-Represented in Haitian Immigrant Fiction -- , Part IV. Silencing Suffering: The ‘Painless’ Czech Case -- , 9. ‘Painless’ Fictions? Czech Exile and Return -- , 10. ‘The Suffering of Return’: Painful Detours in Czech Novels of Return -- , For a Responsive Conclusion -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442689497

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689497