The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory trajectories, lives, and experiences that have shaped the post-1989 world.
The contributors examine a broad range of literary texts and critical approaches that cover the spectrum between voluntary and forced migration. In doing so, they reflect the shift in recent years from the author-centric study of migrant writing to a more inclusive conception of migration literature. The book contains sections on key terms and critical approaches in the field; important genres of migration literature; a range of forms and trajectories of migration, with a particular focus on the global South; and on migration literature’s relevance in social contexts outside the academy. Its range of scholarly voices on literature from different geographical contexts and in different languages is central to its call for and contribution to a pluriversal turn in literary migration studies in future scholarship.
This Companion will be of particular interest to scholars working on contemporary migration literature, and it also offers an introduction to new students and scholars from other fields.
Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Edited by:
Gigi Adair,
Rebecca Fasselt,
Carly McLaughlin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032191690
ISBN 10: 1032191694
Series: Routledge Literature Companions
Pages: 568
Publication Date: 30 July 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Introduction PART I Key Terms 1 Cultural Hybridity and Migration: From Extraordinary States of In-Betweenness to Everyday Phenomenon 2 Cultural Identity: Toward Spatiotemporal Processes of Identity Formation in Migration Literature 3 Tracing “Home” in the Critical Discourse on Migration 4 Migration Nation: State of Contradiction 5 Hospitality: The History of a Term, Present Perspectives and the Potential of Its Undecidability 6 Exile: From Geographical Displacement to Metaphorical Condition 7 From Territorial Boundary to Polysemic Spaces: Borders, Borderization, Borderlands 8 Multilingual Migration Literature as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediation 9 The “Skin of Language”: Linguistic and cultural translation in migrant literature PART II Critical Approaches 10 Postcolonial Studies, Migration and Literature: Positions, Perspectives and Debates 11 Diaspora: Keywords, Reading Strategies, and New Approaches in Literary Studies 12 Migration and/as Translation: Negotiations of New Forms of Sexual Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Literature from the Maghreb 13 Postmigration: A Critical Intervention in Literary Studies 14 To be Moved: Affect and Migration Literature 15 Reading Migration Literature Through a Mobility Studies Lens 16 World Literature and Migration Literature PART III Genres 17 “Language is the Translator”: Formal and Linguistic Disruption in the Migration Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña and m. nourbeSe Philip 18 Migration Novels as Archival Spaces: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive and Amitava Kumar’s Immigrant, Montana 19 Borders, Migration and the Contemporary Short Story 20 The Chronotopes of Global Movement in the Dramaturgy of Migration 21 Testimonio as Migration Literature in Latinx, Latin American and Filipino Life Writing 22 Graphic Borders: Refugee Comics as Migration Literature 23 The Future of Immigration in Latinx Science Fiction PART IV The Spectrum of Migration 24 Literary Representations of Forced Migration 25 Routing Return through Contemporary Novels of Migration 26 Walking On the Edge: The Poetry of Chinese Rural–Urban Migrants 27 Genre Flailing and the Contemporary Climate Migration Novel PART V Geographical Contexts 28 Gunny Sack Mementos and Shipboard Intimacies: Circulatory Objects, Migratory Subjects, and the Limits of Form in Indian Ocean Fiction 29 Transpacific Trajectories: Australian Migrant Literature in Spanish and Its Cono Sur Connections 30 Between Mediterranean Realism and Fantasy: Migrant Divides 31 Reimagining Anti-Colonial Exile and Post-independence Transnational Movements across Southern and East Africa in Intra-African Migration Literatures 32 Returns and Disenchantments: Post-Cold War Andean Migration Literature in Peru and Bolivia 33 Migration (and) Literature from the Post-Soviet South: The Mobility of Memory in Dina Rubina’s On the Sunny Side of the Street and Olga Grjasnowa’s All Russians Love Birch Trees 34 Migration Narratives in Contemporary Arab Novels 35 Transnational Solidarity: Millennial Writers and Contemporary Migration Literature in Taiwan 36 Representing the Arabian Gulf in Malayalam Migration Narratives 37 Counter-Orientalism in Palestinian Migration Literature in Chile 38 In Search of Just Memory: The Rise of Deimperialization in Asian American Narratives of Return PART VI Migration Literature and the Social 39 Migration Literature Online: Digital Readers as Consecrating Authorities 40 Texts that Assure: Selecting Picturebooks to Use with Displaced Children 41 Romani Literature(s) as a Political Actor: Between the Social and the Aesthetic 42 “I am the child of Africa but a woman of Australia”: Hani Abdile and Huda Fadlelmawla on Literature, Displacement, Exile, and Somali and Sudanese Diasporic Identities – in conversation with Omid Tofighian Index
Gigi Adair is Junior Professor in English at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. She is the author of Kinship Across the Black Atlantic: Writing Diasporic Relations (2019). Rebecca Fasselt is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her main research interest is in intra-African migration and diasporic literatures. Carly McLaughlin works at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany. Her research focuses on the intersection of forced migration with childhood.
