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Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

Afghanistan --- Roman américain --- Romans --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- 21e siècle --- Fiction.

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This innovative volume discusses the significance of home and global mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction written in English. Through analyses of central diasporic and migrant writers in the United Kingdom and the United States, the timely volume exposes the importance of home and its reconstruction in diasporic literature in the era of globalization and increasing transnational mobility. Through wide-ranging case studies dealing with a variety of black British and ethnic American writers, Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction shows how new identities and homes are constructed in the migrants' new homelands. The volume examines how diasporic novels inscribe hybridity and multiplicity in formerly uniform spaces and subvert traditional understandings of nation, citizenship, and history. Particular emphasis is on the ways in which diasporic fictions appropriate and transform traditional literary genres such as the Bildungsroman and the picaresque to explore the questions of migration and transformation. The authors discussed include Caryl Phillips, Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Hari Kunzru, Kamila Shamsie, Benjamin Zephaniah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cynthia Kadohata, Ana Castillo, Diana Abu-Jaber, and Bharati Mukherjee. The volume is of particular interest to all scholars and students of post-colonial and ethnic literatures in English.

Émigration et immigration --- Roman anglais --- Roman américain --- Dans la littérature --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Thèmes, motifs

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THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) AMERICAIN --- LITTERATURE AFRO-AMERICAINE --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- ESCLAVAGE ET ESCLAVES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTEURS APPARTENANT A DES MINORITES --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) AMERICAIN --- LITTERATURE AFRO-AMERICAINE --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- ESCLAVAGE ET ESCLAVES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTEURS APPARTENANT A DES MINORITES --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian women writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists—Claire Harris, Olive Senior, Lillian Allen, Afua Cooper, Dionne Brand, M. Nourbese Philip, Nalo Hopkinson, Pamela Mordecai, and Makeda Silvera— as an integral not marginal element of the Canadian and world literature canons. The authors of these essays and interviews dissect issues of history, gender, power, identity, and levels of discourse in moving scholars, researchers, and students into arenas of more vigorous study and critique of the West Indian woman writer in Canada. These essays further examine how these women writers’ literary works reflect their foundations as Caribbean-born while illustrating their movement “beyond the canebrakes”—Caribbean homeland— in a reflection and synthesis of their birth-home/heritage with diasporic-home.

Littérature canadienne --- LITTERATURE CANADIENNE --- IDENTITE COLLECTIVE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE CANADIENNE --- REGION CARAÏBE --- LITTERATURE CANADIENNE --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- 20E SIECLE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTEURS D'ORIGINE ANTILLAISE --- Littérature canadienne --- LITTERATURE CANADIENNE --- IDENTITE COLLECTIVE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE CANADIENNE --- REGION CARAÏBE --- LITTERATURE CANADIENNE --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- 20E SIECLE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTEURS D'ORIGINE ANTILLAISE --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc

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Diaspora studies have tended to privilege urban landscapes over rural ones, wanting to avoid the racial homogeneity, conservatism, and xenophobia usually associated with the latter. In "Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas", Sarah Phillips Casteel examines the work of writers such as Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, Philip Roth, and Joy Kogawa, among others, to show how it expresses the appeal that rural and wilderness spaces can hold for the diasporic imagination. Casteel proposes an alternative to postmodern celebrations of rootlessness, bringing together writers from the Caribbean and North America who uniquely reimagine the New World landscape from the vantage point of cultural and geographical dislocation. As represented in a range of genres and media - fiction, poetry, garden writing, and installation art - these alternative forms of belonging reinterpret New World nature as infused with history and as subject to competing claims, generating a new poetics of American place. The author's transnational approach also gives significant attention to Canadian material, which has largely been overlooked in hemispheric studies of the literature of the Americas. Contributing to the growing movement of comparative American studies, "Second Arrivals" will appeal to scholars and students of inter-American studies, Caribbean studies, Canadian studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism.

Migration. Refugees --- American literature --- Thematology --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- PAYSAGES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- MINORITES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- EMIGRATION ET IMMIGRATION DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LIEU (PHILOSOPHIE) --- JARDINS --- AUTEURS APPARTENANT A DES MINORITES --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Histoire et critique --- 20E SIECLE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- Émigration et immigration --- Dans la littérature