The Penguin book of migration literature : departures, arrivals, generations, returns

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Every year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival. This selection of works collected together for the first time brings together the most compelling literary depictions of migration.

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Emigration and immigration in literature

Exiles in literature

Immigrants in literature

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ISBN:

9780143133384

Description:

xxix, 281 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281)

Contents:

Departures. From The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano (West Africa --> Barbados) / Olaudah Equiano
Zong! #5 (West Africa --> ) / M. NourbeSe Philip
Come, Japanese! (Japan --> USA) / Julie Otsuka
Under the wire (Mexico --> USA) / Francisco Jiménez
From Lost in translation (Poland --> Canada) / Eva Hoffman
From How to get filthy rich in rising Asia (village --> city) / Mohsin Hamid
Children of the sea (Haiti --> ) / Edwidge Danticat
From Aunt Jen (Jamaica --> UK) / Paulette Ramsay
An honest exit (Ethiopia --> Sudan --> Italy --> UK --> USA) / Dinaw Mengestu
Good advice is rarer than rubies (Pakistan --> UK) / Salman Rushdie
Conversations about home (at the deportation centre) (Somalia --> UK) / Warsan Shire
Another planet (Earth --> other planet) / Dunya Mikhail
Arrivals. On being brought from Africa to America (West Africa --> North America) / Phillis Wheatley
The tropics in New York (Jamaica --> USA) / Claude McKay
From To sir, with love (Guyana --> UK) / E. R. Braithwaite
Come back to Grenada (Grenada --> UK) / Sam Selvon
Montreal 1962 (India --> Canada) / Shauna Singh Baldwin
From The bridge of the golden horn (Turkey --> Germany) / Emine Sevgi Özdamar
From Persepolis 2: the story of a return (Iran --> Austria) / Marjane Satrapi
From Strawberry fields (Ukraine --> UK) / Marina Lewycka
From Temporary people (India --> United Arab Emirates) / Deepak Unnikrishnan
Heading somewhere (Ethiopia --> Canada/Syria) / Djamila Ibrahim
Generations. The time of the peacock (India --> Australia) / Mena Abdullah
From Tea in the harem (Algeria --> France) / Mehdi Charef
Ellis Island (Native American/Russia --> USA) / Joseph Bruchac
Coolie mother and Coolie son (the toilet attendant writes home) (India --> Guyana --> UK) / David Dabydeen
Out on Main Street (India --> Trinidad and Tobago --> Canada) / Shani Mootoo
My son the fanatic (Pakistan --> UK) / Hanif Kureishi
From White teeth (Jamaica --> UK) / Zadie Smith
AmeRícan (Puerto Rico --> mainland USA) / Tato Laviera
Green (Nigeria --> USA) / Sefi Atta
origin stories (reprise) (Sudan --> USA) / Safia Elhillo
Returns. A conversation (Egypt --> USA --> Egypt) / Pauline Kaldas

LCCN:

2019004724

Control Number:

2814796

Other Authors:

Ahmad, Dohra, editor, author of introduction
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- author of foreword

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