Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi : Writing Home (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements

Credits

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Introduction

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Part 1: The foundations of ‘Home’

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Chapter 1: Different Notions of Home

(1.1) Conceptualising Home

(1.2) Postcolonial Perspectives

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Chapter 2: ‘Home’ in theory

(2.1) The Experiential

(2.2) The Imaginative

(2.3) Homi Bhabha, Hybridity, and Third Space Theory

(2.4) Gendered Perspectives

(2.5) The Loss of Home

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Part 2: Reading ‘Home’

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Chapter 3: Contemporary British Poetry

(3.1) ‘Home-based’ poetry in English

(3.2) Post-colonial Poetries

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Part 3: Writing ‘Home’

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Chapter 4: Hidden Worlds: Moniza Alvi

(4.1) The Poetics of Uncertainty

(4.2) The Embodied Identity

(4.3) The Mythopoetic

(4.4) Map Making

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Chapter 5: My English Years: Choman Hardi

(5.1) Memory and Exile

(5.2) My English Years

(5.3) The Poetics of Witness

(5.4) Considering the Women

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Conclusions

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Index