1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature
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.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gigi Adair, Rebecca Fasselt, Carly McLaughlin
PART I
Key Terms
1 Cultural Hybridity and Migration: From Extraordinary States of In-Betweenness to Everyday Phenomenon
Sten Pultz Moslund
2 Cultural Identity: Toward Spatiotemporal Processes of Identity Formation in Migration Literature
Jopi Nyman
3 Tracing “Home” in the Critical Discourse on Migration
Lucinda Newns
4 Migration Nation: State of Contradiction
Russell West-Pavlov
5 Hospitality: The History of a Term, Present Perspectives and the Potential of Its Undecidability
Carmen Zamorano Llena
6 Exile: From Geographical Displacement to Metaphorical Condition
Antonia Wimbush
7 From Territorial Boundary to Polysemic Spaces: Borders, Borderization, Borderlands
Mabel Moraña
8 Multilingual Migration Literature as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediation
Sneja Gunew
9 The “Skin of Language”: Linguistic and cultural translation in migrant literature
Tina Steiner
PART II
Critical Approaches
10 Postcolonial Studies, Migration and Literature: Positions, Perspectives and Debates
Norbert Bugeja
11 Diaspora: Keywords, Reading Strategies, and New Approaches in Literary Studies
Christiane Steckenbiller
12 Migration and/as Translation: Negotiations of New Forms of Sexual Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Literature from the Maghreb
William J. Spurlin
13 Postmigration: A Critical Intervention in Literary Studies
Moritz Schramm
14 To be Moved: Affect and Migration Literature
Carlos M. Piocos III
15 Reading Migration Literature Through a Mobility Studies Lens
Anna-Leena Toivanen
16 World Literature and Migration Literature
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
PART III
Genres
17 “Language is the Translator”: Formal and Linguistic Disruption in the Migration Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña and m. nourbeSe Philip
Rachel Elizabeth Robinson
18 Migration Novels as Archival Spaces: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive and Amitava Kumar’s Immigrant, Montana
Sonia Weiner
19 Borders, Migration and the Contemporary Short Story
Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez
20 The Chronotopes of Global Movement in the Dramaturgy of Migration
Yana Meerzon
21 Testimonio as Migration Literature in Latinx, Latin American and Filipino Life Writing
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
22 Graphic Borders: Refugee Comics as Migration Literature
Dominic Davies
23 The Future of Immigration in Latinx Science Fiction
Matthew David Goodwin
PART IV
The Spectrum of Migration
24 Literary Representations of Forced Migration
Bishupal Limbu
25 Routing Return through Contemporary Novels of Migration
Amanda Lagji
26 Walking On the Edge: The Poetry of Chinese Rural–Urban Migrants
Federico Picerni
27 Genre Flailing and the Contemporary Climate Migration Novel
Bryan Yazell
PART V
Geographical Contexts
28 Gunny Sack Mementos and Shipboard Intimacies: Circulatory Objects, Migratory Subjects, and the Limits of Form in Indian Ocean Fiction
Kritish Rajbhandari
29 Transpacific Trajectories: Australian Migrant Literature in Spanish and Its Cono Sur Connections
Michael Jacklin
30 Between Mediterranean Realism and Fantasy: Migrant Divides
Nahrain Al-Mousawi
31 Reimagining Anti-Colonial Exile and Post-independence Transnational Movements across Southern and East Africa in Intra-African Migration Literatures
Rebecca Fasselt and Isaac Ndlovu
32 Returns and Disenchantments: Post-Cold War Andean Migration Literature in Peru and Bolivia
Lorena Cuya Gavilano
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
Marja Sorvari
34 Migration Narratives in Contemporary Arab Novels
Maria Elena Paniconi and Martina Censi
35 Transnational Solidarity: Millennial Writers and Contemporary Migration Literature in Taiwan
Min-xu Zhan
36 Representing the Arabian Gulf in Malayalam Migration Narratives
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
37 Counter-Orientalism in Palestinian Migration Literature in Chile
Lila McDowell Carlsen
38 In Search of Just Memory: The Rise of Deimperialization in Asian American Narratives of Return
Patricia P. Chu
PART VI
Migration Literature and the Social
39 Migration Literature Online: Digital Readers as Consecrating Authorities
Oana Sabo
40 Romani Literature(s) as a Political Actor: Between the Social and the Aesthetic
Ana Belén Martín Sevillano
41 Texts that Assure: Selecting Picturebooks to Use with Displaced Children
Julia E. McAdam, Evelyn Arizpe, Susanne Abou Ghaida
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
Hani Abdile, Huda Fadlelmawla, Omid Tofighian
Index
Biography
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 (Liverpool University Press 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.
