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245	0	0	_aProjections of paradise : _bideal elsewheres in postcolonial migrant literature / _cedited by Helga Ramsey-Kurz ; with Geetha Ganapathy-Doré.
264		1	_aAmsterdam ; _aNew York : _bRodopi.
264		4	_c©2011.
300			_a1 online resource (xxv, 277 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, _x0924-1426 ; _v132
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tPreliminary Material -- _tRevisiting Lost Gardens: The Expulsion from Childhood in the Writings of Penelope Lively / _rVera Alexander -- _tKashmir by Way of London and New York: Projections of Paradise in Salman Rushdie and Agha Shahid Ali / _rGeetha Ganapathy–Doré -- _tSubverting the Tropical Paradise / _rGerd Bayer -- _tThe Search for Paradise: Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide / _rEvelyne Hanquart–Turner -- _t“But are we not all refugees from something?”: Projections of Paradise in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef / _rSusanne Pichler -- _tReconfigurations of “home as a mythic place of desire”: Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists / _rPetra Tournay–Theodotou -- _tThe Paradise Within: Displacement, Memory and Nostalgia in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea / _rSofía Muñoz Valdivieso -- _tParadise Regained?: The Harem in Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood / _rMarta Mamet–Michalkiewicz -- _tThe Scent of Paradise: Michael Ondaatje’s “The Cinnamon Peeler” / _rUlla Ratheiser -- _tWaters of Paradise: The English Patient / _rUrsula Kluwick -- _t“I got raptures once, and I saw God”: Shabine as Prophetic Shaman of Paradise in Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight” / _rDerek Coyle -- _t“I feel the land”: Contradictions of Place in Rudy Wiebe’s Mennonite Novels / _rJanne Korkka -- _tGlimpses of Paradise: Hope in Short Stories of Migration by M.G. Vassanji, Cyril Dabydeen, and Janette Turner Hospital / _rHelga Ramsey–Kurz -- _tNotes on Contributors -- _tIndex.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aParadise is commonly imagined as a place of departure or arrival, beginning and closure, permanent inhabitation of which, however much desired, is illusory. This makes it the dream of the traveller, the explorer, the migrant – hence, a trope recurrent in postcolonial writing, which is so centrally concerned with questions of displacement and belonging. Projections of Paradise documents this concern and demonstrates the indebtedness of writers as diverse as Salman Rushdie, Agha Shahid Ali, Cyril Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, Amitav Ghosh, James Goonewardene, Romesh Gunesekera, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Janette Turner Hospital, Penelope Lively, Fatima Mernissi, Michael Ondaatje, Shyam Selvadurai, M.G. Vassanji, and Rudy Wiebe to strikingly similar myths of fulfilment. In writing, directly or indirectly, about the experience of migration, all project paradises as places of origin or destination, as homes left or not yet found, as objects of nostalgic recollection or hopeful anticipation. Yet in locating such places, quite specifically, in Egypt, Zanzibar, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, the Sundarbans, Canada, the Caribbean, Queensland, Morocco, Tuscany, Russia, the Arctic, the USA, and England, they also subvert received fantasies of paradise as a pleasurable land rich with natural beauty. Projections of Paradise explores what happens to these fantasies and what remains of them as postcolonial writings call them into question and expose the often hellish realities from which popular dreams of ideal elsewheres are commonly meant to provide an escape. Contributors: Vera Alexander, Gerd Bayer, Derek Coyle, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Ursula Kluwick, Janne Korkka, Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz, Sofia Muñoz-Valdieso, Susanne Pichler, Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Ulla Ratheiser, Petra Tournay-Thedotou.
650		0	_aParadise in literature.
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature.
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration in literature.
650		7	_aEmigration and immigration in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aParadise in literature. _2fast
650		7	_aPostcolonialism in literature. _2fast
700	1		_aRamsey-Kurz, Helga.
700	1		_aGanapathy-Doré, Geetha.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tProjections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature _dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2011, _z9789042033337
830		0	_aCross/Cultures _v132.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004357914.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401200332
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