Displacement, memory, and travel in contemporary migrant writing / / by Jopi Nyman.
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 m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (251 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Introduction to Part 1
- Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement in Contemporary Narratives of Forced Migration
- Mapping Refugee Spaces in Simão Kikamba’s Going Home
- Transnational Migrant Identity in Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- Borders and Transitive Identities in Jamal Mahjoub’s “Last Thoughts on the Medusa”
- Introduction to Part 2
- Home, Memory, and Identity in the Culinary Memoirs by Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber
- Migration and Melancholia in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way
- Transnational Spaces, Identities, and Memories in Caryl Phillips’ Dancing in the Dark
- Introduction to Part 3
- Transnational Europe in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns
- Travel, Diaspora, and Migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes
- Globalizing European Peripheries: The Transnational and the Translocal in Monica Ali’s Alentejo Blue
- Cross-Cultural Kitchen: Britishness, Globalization, and New Migrants in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen
- Bibliography
- Index.