Rethinking the Figure of the Refugee in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore
The refugee has been traditionally perceived as an archetype of displacement and marginalisation, and what Julia Kristeva refers to as a liminal ‘abject’ other. This article argues that Caryl Phillips’s novel A Distant Shore deconstructs these notions and offers an alternative way of reconceptualisi...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2018-03-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/4294 |