Writing displacement: Home and identity in contemporary post-colonial english fiction

Abstract

Uses the Palestinian exilic displacements as a tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions Studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst different migrant nationals from the end of WWII into the new millennium Celebrates the freedom to be 'out of place' which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or pushed aside in cultural translation.