They were "wonder texts," diatribes, cautionary tales, the purest fantasy, political polemic, or the most blatant of autobiography. Sell (U. of Alcalaa) not only traces the uses of travel literature a
Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's