{"product_id":"readaptation-narratives-in-sojourner-literature","title":"Readaptation Narratives in 'Sojourner Literature'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Palgrave Pivot makes a case for  sojourner literature , a new literary genre within transnational literature, parallel to  immigrant literature , and its subgenre  readaptation narratives . Sojourners are a privileged group of migrants who travel freely and by choice, and yet they struggle with the experience of returning home. Through contextualization, readaptation narratives open psychological concepts like grief, ambiguous loss, identity shifts, and coping styles, while the psychology deepens the reading of the narrative form and its exposition of in-betweenness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novels explored are \u003cem\u003eA Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmericanah\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDear Pakistan\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Reluctant Fundamentalist\u003c\/em\u003e, and two Icelandic novels that have not been translated into English, \u003cem\u003eAð heiman \u003c\/em\u003e[Away from Home] and \u003cem\u003eMávahlátur\u003c\/em\u003e [Seagulls Laughter]. The analysis reveals two new metaphors that help ground the meaning of dis-\/re-orientation in the context of readaptation and suggests that the existing readaptation framework requires expansion to better deal with the complexity of the phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53951243714898,"sku":"9783032013392","price":42.79,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_808a240d-4890-46cc-ab21-52b6728fcc0b.jpg?v=1783459023","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/readaptation-narratives-in-sojourner-literature","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}