1st Edition
Liminal Diasporas Contemporary Movements of Humanity and the Environment
Preface - The right to stay and the right to move
Ashley Dawson
Introduction: Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19
Rahul K. Gairola, Sarah Courtis and Tim Flanagan
1. Picturing precarity: Diasporic belonging and camp life in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi
Bidisha Banerjee
2. “Leave to quit boundaries”: Danger, precarity, and queer diasporas in the South Asian Caribbean
Christopher Ian Foster
3. Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa’s fiction
Payel Pal
4. Disabled movement beyond metaphor in Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
Luke Brown
5. Narrating global asymmetries of power: Children’s play/games and photography in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
Felix Ndaka
6. Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC’s The Walking Dead
Lauren O’Mahony, Melissa Merchant and Simon Order
Afterword: The Radical Hope of Diasporas
Jacqueline Lo
Biography
Rahul K. Gairola is The Krishna Somers Senior Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature and a Principal Fellow of the Indo-Pacific Research Centre (IPRC) at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He has published six books and over 50 peer reviewed research articles. He is a series editor for both Routledge and Oxford University Press, and is a 2024 Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Münster, Germany, under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Programme of the European Union.
Sarah Courtis is Lecturer of University Preparation Pathways at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and a Fellow of Advance HE. She is currently publishing with Routledge and Oxford University Press, among others, with research foci on disability, feminism, and queer studies. She also teaches at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). She is moreover a performing artist, lyricist, and researcher in the popular Bogan Shakespeare troupe based in Perth, Western Australia.
Tim Flanagan is Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is author of Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances (Palgrave, 2021) and co-editor of the book series Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy. He is currently working on a book project oriented by the rethinking of ontology by logology undertaken by Barbara Cassin.
