Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing

ISABEL CARRERA SUÁREZ Professor in English, University of Oviedo, Spain STEF CRAPS BOF-ZAP Research Professor in English Literature, Ghent University, BelgiumADRIANO ELIA Senior Lecturer in English, University of Rome 'Roma Tre', ItalyENRIQUE GALVÁN-ÁLVAREZ Doctoral Candidate, University of Alcalá, Spain FELICITY HAND Senior Lecturer in the English Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain RUTH MAXEY Lecturer in Modern American Literature, School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, UKSTEPHEN MORTON Senior Lecturer in English, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK SOFÍA MUÑOZ-VALDIVIESO Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Malaga, Spain CHRIS WEEDON Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK

• Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora  Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam  Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah  'My split self and my split world': Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid's Fiction  'Beige outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience  Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island  Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life  Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips  Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie  White Teeth's Embodied Metaphors: the Moribund and the Living Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons References

'A lively, varied and contentious contribution to the field' - James Procter, Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature, University of Newcastle, UK