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001 2009417715
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008 090630s2009 onc b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPN491.5$b.H76 2009
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100 1 $aHron, Madelaine.
245 10 $aTranslating pain :$bimmigrant suffering in literature and culture /$cMadelaine Hron.
260 $aToronto :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$cc2009.
300 $axix, 300 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.
505 0 $a"Perversely through pain" : immigrants and immigrant suffering -- "Suffering matters" : the translation and politics of pain -- "Mal partout" : bodily rhetoric in Maghrebi immigrant fiction -- "In the maim of the father" : disability and bodies of labour -- "Ni putes ni soumises?" : engendering doubly oppressed bodies -- "Pathologically sick" : metaphors of disease in beur texts -- "Zombification" : hybrid myth-uses of vodou from the West to Haiti -- "Zombi-fictions" : vodou myth-represented in Haitian immigrant fiction -- "Painless" fictions? : Czech exile and return -- "The suffering of return" : painful detours in Czech novels of return.
650 0 $aFiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration in literature.
650 0 $aSuffering in literature.
650 0 $aImmigrants in literature.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration$xPsychological aspects$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.