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Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and hybridity literature, this book offers a way out of the theoretical deadlock of putting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity.
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Migration Literature and Hybridity
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Also by Sten Pultz Moslund MAKING USE OF HISTORY IN NEW SOUTH AFRICAN FICTION: An Analysis of the Purposes of Historical Perspectives in Three Post-Apartheid Novels
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LONDON: Migrant City
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The Different Speeds of Transcultural Change
Sten Pultz Moslund
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Migration Literature and Hybridity
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