{"product_id":"9783032013392","title":"Readaptation Narratives in 'Sojourner Literature': The Dis- and Re-Orientation of Returning Home","description":"\u003ch1\u003eReadaptation Narratives in 'Sojourner Literature': The Dis- and Re-Orientation of Returning Home\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePálsdóttir, Karítas Hrundar\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n\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 \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-09-03\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032013392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-032-01340-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 126\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44318330093708,"sku":"9783032013392","price":40.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032013392.jpg?v=1776874824","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032013392","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}