Displacement, memory, and travel in contemporary migrant writing

Author(s)

• Nyman, Jopi

Bibliographic Information

Displacement, memory, and travel in contemporary migrant writing

by Jopi Nyman

（Textxet : studies in comparative literature, v. 83）

Brill Rodopi, c2017

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-245) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Displacement, Memory, and Travel in Contemporary Migrant Writing examines contemporary cultural representations of transforming identities in the era of increasing global mobility. It pays particular attention to the ways in which cultural encounters are experienced affectively and discursively in migrant literature. Divided into three parts that deal with refugee writing and displacement, migration and memory, and new European identities, the volume develops current methodologies and shows how postcolonial studies can be applied to the study of cultural encounters. Writers studied include Simao Kikamba, Ishmael Beah, Madhur Jaffrey, Diana Abu-Jaber, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Caryl Phillips, Jamal Mahjoub, and Monica Ali, and several refugee writers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Refugees and Displaced Migrants 2. Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration 3. Mapping Refugee Spaces in Simao Kikamba's Going Home 4. Transnational Migrant Identity in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 5. Borders and Transitive Identities in Jamal Mahjoub's "Last Thoughts on the Medusa" Part II: Memories of Migration 6. Home, Memory, and Identity in the Culinary Memoirs by Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber 7. Migration and Melancholia in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrims Way 8. Transnational Spaces, Identities, and Memories in Caryl Phillips' Dancing in the Dark Part III: Migration, Travel, and Postcolonial Europe 9. Transnational Europe in Jamal Mahjoub's Travelling with Djinns 10. Travel, Diaspora, and Migration in Jamal Mahjoub's The Drift Latitudes 11. Globalizing European Peripheries: The Transnational and the Translocal in Monica Ali's Alentejo Blue 12. Cross-Cultural Kitchen: Britishness, Globalization, and New Migrants in Monica Ali's In the Kitchen Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB23714594
• ISBN:
  • 9789004342057
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 251 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR120.N96
  • DC23 : 820.9/920691
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Immigrants' writings, English -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Displacement (Psychology) in literature
  • LCSH : Memory in literature
  • LCSH : Travel in literature
  • LCSH : Immigrants in literature
  • LCSH : Cultural fusion in literature
  • LCSH : Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA25187084