The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature

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 (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.

Introduction

PART I Key Terms

1 Cultural Hybridity and Migration: From Extraordinary States of In-Betweenness to Everyday Phenomenon

2 Cultural Identity: Toward Spatiotemporal Processes of Identity Formation in Migration Literature

3 Tracing “Home” in the Critical Discourse on Migration

4 Migration Nation: State of Contradiction

5 Hospitality: The History of a Term, Present Perspectives and the Potential of Its Undecidability

6 Exile: From Geographical Displacement to Metaphorical Condition

7 From Territorial Boundary to Polysemic Spaces: Borders, Borderization, Borderlands

8 Multilingual Migration Literature as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediation

9 The “Skin of Language”: Linguistic and cultural translation in migrant literature

PART II Critical Approaches

10 Postcolonial Studies, Migration and Literature: Positions, Perspectives and Debates

11 Diaspora: Keywords, Reading Strategies, and New Approaches in Literary Studies

12 Migration and/as Translation: Negotiations of New Forms of Sexual Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Literature from the Maghreb

13 Postmigration: A Critical Intervention in Literary Studies

14 To be Moved: Affect and Migration Literature

15 Reading Migration Literature Through a Mobility Studies Lens

16 World Literature and Migration Literature

PART III Genres

17 “Language is the Translator”: Formal and Linguistic Disruption in the Migration Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña and m. nourbeSe Philip

18 Migration Novels as Archival Spaces: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive and Amitava Kumar’s Immigrant, Montana

19 Borders, Migration and the Contemporary Short Story

20 The Chronotopes of Global Movement in the Dramaturgy of Migration

21 Testimonio as Migration Literature in Latinx, Latin American and Filipino Life Writing

22 Graphic Borders: Refugee Comics as Migration Literature

23 The Future of Immigration in Latinx Science Fiction

PART IV The Spectrum of Migration

24 Literary Representations of Forced Migration

25 Routing Return through Contemporary Novels of Migration

26 Walking On the Edge: The Poetry of Chinese Rural–Urban Migrants

27 Genre Flailing and the Contemporary Climate Migration Novel

PART V Geographical Contexts

28 Gunny Sack Mementos and Shipboard Intimacies: Circulatory Objects, Migratory Subjects, and the Limits of Form in Indian Ocean Fiction

29 Transpacific Trajectories: Australian Migrant Literature in Spanish and Its Cono Sur Connections

30 Between Mediterranean Realism and Fantasy: Migrant Divides

31 Reimagining Anti-Colonial Exile and Post-independence Transnational Movements across Southern and East Africa in Intra-African Migration Literatures

32 Returns and Disenchantments: Post-Cold War Andean Migration Literature in Peru and Bolivia

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

34 Migration Narratives in Contemporary Arab Novels

35 Transnational Solidarity: Millennial Writers and Contemporary Migration Literature in Taiwan

36 Representing the Arabian Gulf in Malayalam Migration Narratives

37 Counter-Orientalism in Palestinian Migration Literature in Chile

38 In Search of Just Memory: The Rise of Deimperialization in Asian American Narratives of Return

PART VI Migration Literature and the Social

39 Migration Literature Online: Digital Readers as Consecrating Authorities

40 Texts that Assure: Selecting Picturebooks to Use with Displaced Children

41 Romani Literature(s) as a Political Actor: Between the Social and the Aesthetic

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

Index