Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Bosman, Sean James
Titre(s) : Rejection of victimhood in literature [Texte électronique] : by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea / by Sean James Bosman
Publication : Leiden ; Boston : Brill,, [2021]
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (vi, 204 pages)
Collection : Textxet : studies in comparative literature, ISSN 0927-5754 ; volume 96
Lien à la collection : Textxet (Amsterdam. Online)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on
September 17, 2021).
This book builds on existing scholarship by leading theorists to offer an in-depth
examination of an intriguing selection of writers. It explores how works by Abdulrazak
Gurnah, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Luis Alberto Urrea represent a recalibration of how
stories about marginalised migrants in the US and the UK are told - stories about
their rights, their suffering, and their relationships to the citizens around them
that reject victimhood and embrace just memories. The selected works reject and counter
descriptions of the marginalised that are framed in terms of victimhood and passivity.
As an alternative, they emphasise the need for just memories and narratives that not
only accept personal agency, but also afford their characters opportunities to exercise
power and control over their own lives and destinies, no matter how limited these
may be
Sujet(s) : Gurnah, Abdulrazak (1948-....) -- Critique et interprétation
Urrea, Luis Alberto (1955-....) -- Critique et interprétation
Nguyen, Viet Thanh (1971-....) -- Critique et interprétation
Transnationalisme -- Dans la littérature
Immigrés -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey : 809.892 0691 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Pour ou par des migrants
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004469006. - ISBN 9004469001. - ISBN 9789004468993 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46886757p
Notice n° :
FRBNF46886757
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Abdulrazak Gurnah ; Viet Thanh Nguyen ; Luis Alberto Urrea ; Comparative analysis.
