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S. Frank, Migration and Literature, Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad

S. Frank, Migration and Literature, Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad

  • Palgrave Macmillan,
  • EAN : 0230608280
Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

FRANK, Søren, Migration and Literature, Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 248 p.
ISBN 0-230-60828-0

RÉSUMÉ

We live in an age of migration and more and more authors have migrant backgrounds. Migration and Literatureoffers a thorough and thought provoking examination of the thematic andformal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists,Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad. Thisbook examines how these novelists reflect, problematize, and “resolve”the problems set by the migratory world and analyzes how the novelsemploy discursive strategies which emphasize their migratory andhomeless form.

BIOGRAPHIE

Søren Frank is Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of Salman Rushdies kartografi, and the forthcoming Giganternes skuldre: En fortælling om Manchester United.In addition, he has published a number of articles on Rushdie and Grassand translated Gilles Deleuze's book on Proust into Danish.