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"Perversely through pain" : immigrants and immigrant suffering -- "Suffering matters" : the translation and politics of pain -- "Mal partout" : bodily rhetoric in Maghrebi immigrant fiction -- "In the maim of the father" : disability and bodies of labour -- "Ni putes ni soumises?" : engendering doubly oppressed bodies -- "Pathologically sick" : metaphors of disease in beur texts -- "Zombification" : hybrid myth-uses of vodou from the West to Haiti -- "Zombi-fictions" : vodou myth-represented in Haitian immigrant fiction -- "Painless" fictions? : Czech exile and return -- "The suffering of return" : painful detours in Czech novels of return