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Author:

Hron, Madelaine.

Title:

Translating pain : immigrant suffering in literature and culture / Madelaine Hron.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xix, 300 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Suffering in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Roman--Histoire et critique.--Histoire et critique.
Émigration et immigration dans la littérature.
Souffrance dans la littérature.
Immigrants dans la littérature.
Émigration et immigration--Aspect psychologique--Études transculturelles.
Roman--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"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.

ISBN:

080209919X
9780802099198

OCLC:

(OCoLC)259246826

LCCN:

2009417715

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)