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In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives. Translating Pain fills this gap by examining literature from Muslim North Africa, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe to reveal the representation of immigrant suffering in fiction.Applying immigrant psychology to literary analysis, Madelaine Hron examines the ways in which different forms of physical and psychological pain are expressed in a wide variety of texts. She juxtaposes post-colonial and post-communist concerns about immigration, and contrasts Muslim world views with those of Caribbean creolite and post-Cold War ethics. Demonstrating how pain is translated into literature, she explores the ways in which it also shapes narrative, culture, history, and politics. A compelling and accessible study, Translating Pain is a groundbreaking work of literary and postcolonial studies.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Translating Pain
• Subtitle: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture
• Author: Madelaine Hron
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781442612198
• ISBN: 1442612193
• ID: 04797301
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• Weight: 400 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 151 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. October 2010

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