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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