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

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 Literature offers a thorough and thought provoking examination of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists, Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad. This book examines how these novelists reflect, problematize, and “resolve” the problems set by the migratory world and analyzes how the novels employ discursive strategies which emphasize their migratory and homeless 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 Grass and translated Gilles Deleuze's book on Proust into Danish.