Projections of paradise : ideal elsewheres in postcolonial migrant literature / edited by Helga Ramsey-Kurz with Geetha Ganapathy-Doré

Paradise is commonly imagined as a place of departure or arrival, beginning and closure, permanent inhabitation of which, however much desired, is illusory. This makes it the dream of the traveller, the explorer, the migrant - hence, a trope recurrent in postcolonial writing, which is so centrally c...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Ramsey-Kurz, Helga, Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:	Cross/cultures ; 132.
Subjects:	Paradise in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Emigration and immigration in literature. Postcolonialism.