Writing Displacement Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction

This book studies the metamorphosis of the politics of home and identity amongst migrant nationals subsequent to the end of WWII, using the Palestinian exilic displacements as a critical tool and compass to find intersecting points of reference with the Caribbean, Indian, African, Chinese, and Pakistani dispersions. From Sam Selvon to Salman Rushdie and Monica Ali, Edward Said to Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, the author here reroutes filiation to affiliation. The text troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging; it celebrates the freedom to be "out of place" which opens doors for and promotes rediscovery of materials that have been repressed or pushed aside in cultural translation, without falling into mental ghettoisation.

Akram Al Deek is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Middle East University in Amman, Jordan. He is a Palestinian writer, essayist, researcher, and lecturer in post-colonial studies, world literatures, and cultural and literary theory. Subsequent to exile, he was born in Jordan, German by nationality, and spent his entire twenties in England where he worked as an interpreter, translator, school teacher, and academic lecturer.

Placing Displacement: An Introduction
Chapter 1: Writing Displacement
Chapter 2: Displacing Cultural Identity
Chapter 3: The Windrush Generation: Remapping England and Its Literature
Chapter 4: Masala Fish: Cultural Synthesis and Literary Adventuring
Promoting Cultural Diversity/Multiculturalism Post 9/11: A Conclusion