Liminal Diasporas

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-Skïodowska-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.

Preface - The right to stay and the right to move Introduction: Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19 1. Picturing precarity: Diasporic belonging and camp life in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi 2. “Leave to quit boundaries”: Danger, precarity, and queer diasporas in the South Asian Caribbean 3. Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa’s fiction 4. Disabled movement beyond metaphor in Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea 5. Narrating global asymmetries of power: Children’s play/games and photography in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names 6. Necropolitics in a post-apocalyptic zombie diaspora: The case of AMC’s The Walking Dead Afterword: The Radical Hope of Diasporas