- Abstract:
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This thesis explores cosmopolitan and humanist literary interventions by Palestinian, Israeli, Indian and Pakistani writers to the rise of ‘ethnically’ defined cultural and political narratives of community. It uses a comparative framework to look at contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Raja Shehadeh, Kamila Shamsie, Uzma Aslam Khan and David Grossman, who deconstruct the biologically defined border as a repressive literary, cultural and political metaphor in favour of more open-ende...
Expand abstract - Funding agency for:
- Charlotta Salmi
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
- URN:
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- Local pid:
- ora:7087
- Copyright holder:
- Charlotta Salmi
- Copyright date:
- 2012
Thesis
Bloodlines, borderlines, shadowlines: forms of belonging in contemporary literature from partition areas
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