1st Edition
European Peripheries in the Postcolonial Literary Imagination
Introduction: European peripheries in the postcolonial literary imagination
Janine Hauthal and Anna-Leena Toivanen
1. Imagining the European periphery: post-war Croatia in Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man
Janine Hauthal
2. On the periphery: contemporary exile fiction and Hungary
Ágnes Györke
3. Dark, Almost Night by Joanna Bator as a (hi)story of the peripheral European city of Wałbrzych/Waldenburg
Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska
4. Strasbourg, the crossroads and the borderline: poetics of heterotopia in contemporary literature
Tsivia Frank Wygoda
5. Afroeuropean peripheral mobilities in francophone African literatures
Anna-Leena Toivanen
6. Postcolonial social dramas in European provincial towns: Frank Westerman’s literary journalism
Lucio De Capitani
7. Writing an(Other) Europe: challenging peripheries in Chika Unigwe’s fiction on Belgium
Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez and Elisabeth Bekers
8. Entangled peripheries: Spatial agency in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet and Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child
Judith Rahn
9. Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella’s Slippery Steps
Jopi Nyman
Biography
Janine Hauthal is Assistant Research Professor of Intermedial Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She has published on British and Anglophone settler “fictions of Europe”, theatre and migration, metadrama, genre theory and narratology. Her most recent FWO-funded research project is entitled “Self-Reflexivity and Generic Change in 21st-Century Black British Women’s Literature”.
Anna-Leena Toivanen is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland. She has published on mobility-related themes in African literatures and is the author of Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures (2021). She is working on her next monograph, Afroeuropean Mobilities in Francophone African Literatures.
