Ex-Centric Migrations

Hakim Abderrezak is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Minnesota.

"Ex-Centric Migrations is crucial reading for scholars and students of contemporary Maghrebi, French, and Spanish literatures and cultures. It breaks new ground by encompassing the literature, film, and music of "return migration" and examining the trajectories of Maghrebi migration outside France."—H-France" Ex-Centric Migrations plunges the reader into a tour de force across radically divergent artistic responses to Mediterranean migration. Indeed, the book offers the additional benefit of critically engaging the burgeoning transdisciplinarity of Mediterranean Studies . . . In its fresh, long view of Mediterranean cinema, literature, and music, the book conveys, much like the primary sources it examines, a sustained reflection on alternative, ex-centric migrations. "—Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies"Hakim Abderrezak convincingly illustrates how politically committed artistic practices serve to humanize the challenges of human migration, and in the process dramatically improves our understanding of the complex cultural, economic, political, and social realities that shape 21st-century existence."—Dominic Thomas, author of Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism

• Introduction: Mediterraneans and Migrations in the Global Era1. Disimmigration as a Remedy for the Illness of Immigration in Ismaël Ferroukhi's Le grand voyage2. "Burning the Sea": Clandestine Migration Across the Mediterranean in Francophone Moroccan Illiterature3. Southward Road Narratives: How French Citizens Become Clandestine Immigrants in Algeria4. The New Eldorado in Mediterranean Music5. Europe Bound: Shooting "Illegals" at Sea6. Heading Home: Post-Mortem Road NarrativesConclusion: "White Sea of the Middle" or "Wide Sea to Meddle In"?NotesBibliographyFilmographyDiscographyWorks CitedIndex