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Loss of the Swedish Idyll and Xenophobia: Criminal Detective Kurt Wallander in Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers
Swedish crime fiction writer, Henning Mankell, introduces his police detective Kurt Wallander in the first novel of the Wallander series, Faceless Killers. This paper studies the issue of xenophobia in the Swedish context, and how it affects the protagonist of the novel
READ MORESilence as a Tool of Oppression and Voice as a Tool of Resistance as Portrayed in Select Autobiographies and Memoirs by Migrant Women
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed large-scale migration across the world, transcending borders and giving birth to migrant literature.It strives to project the emotional, psychological, socio-political, cultural and economic aspects of migrant lives
READ MOREMigrants from Disparate Terrains: Entangled Identities in Wide Sargasso Sea
This paper attempts to explore the changing patterns of identities among the dwellers of the two Caribbean Islands—Coulibri and Granbois—in the wake of the 1833 Emancipation Act and its implications for the multi-ethnic populace of the land
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Roots and Routes: Tracing the Trends of Indo-Fijian Fiction
Fiction emanating from the Fiji Islands is as varied as its people. In the pantheon of Fijian Literature, there is expatriate and local writing, iTaukei writing in English and Fijian language, writings from the island of Rotuma and works of Indo-Fijians.
READ MOREHead, Adichie and the Patterns of Migration Struggles
Over the years, migration literature has focused on migrants’ identities, shifts, and modes of negotiating certain tensions and prospects presented by identity-defining factors confronting migrants. Migration literature has also foregrounded identity shifts necessary for migrants’
READ MORENarrating African Migration: Perspectives and Chronotopes in Narrative Strategies
This article adopts an illustrative approach to draw attention to the significance, scope and depth of a large range of African writers’ migration narratives – exploring aspects ranging from the forces propelling these movements to ways in which they are experienced
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