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 Terms1 Cultural Hybridity and Migration: From Extraordinary States of In-Betweenness to Everyday Phenomenon2 Cultural Identity: Toward Spatiotemporal Processes of Identity Formation in Migration Literature3 Tracing “Home” in the Critical Discourse on Migration4 Migration Nation: State of Contradiction5 Hospitality: The History of a Term, Present Perspectives and the Potential of Its Undecidability6 Exile: From Geographical Displacement to Metaphorical Condition7 From Territorial Boundary to Polysemic Spaces: Borders, Borderization, Borderlands8 Multilingual Migration Literature as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediation9 The “Skin of Language”: Linguistic and cultural translation in migrant literaturePART II Critical Approaches10 Postcolonial Studies, Migration and Literature: Positions, Perspectives and Debates11 Diaspora: Keywords, Reading Strategies, and New Approaches in Literary Studies12 Migration and/as Translation: Negotiations of New Forms of Sexual Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Literature from the Maghreb13 Postmigration: A Critical Intervention in Literary Studies14 To be Moved: Affect and Migration Literature15 Reading Migration Literature Through a Mobility Studies Lens16 World Literature and Migration LiteraturePART III Genres17 “Language is the Translator”: Formal and Linguistic Disruption in the Migration Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña and m. nourbeSe Philip18 Migration Novels as Archival Spaces: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive and Amitava Kumar’s Immigrant, Montana19 Borders, Migration and the Contemporary Short Story20 The Chronotopes of Global Movement in the Dramaturgy of Migration21 Testimonio as Migration Literature in Latinx, Latin American and Filipino Life Writing22 Graphic Borders: Refugee Comics as Migration Literature23 The Future of Immigration in Latinx Science FictionPART IV The Spectrum of Migration24 Literary Representations of Forced Migration25 Routing Return through Contemporary Novels of Migration26 Walking On the Edge: The Poetry of Chinese Rural–Urban Migrants27 Genre Flailing and the Contemporary Climate Migration NovelPART V Geographical Contexts28 Gunny Sack Mementos and Shipboard Intimacies: Circulatory Objects, Migratory Subjects, and the Limits of Form in Indian Ocean Fiction29 Transpacific Trajectories: Australian Migrant Literature in Spanish and Its Cono Sur Connections30 Between Mediterranean Realism and Fantasy: Migrant Divides31 Reimagining Anti-Colonial Exile and Post-independence Transnational Movements across Southern and East Africa in Intra-African Migration Literatures32 Returns and Disenchantments: Post-Cold War Andean Migration Literature in Peru and Bolivia33 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 Trees34 Migration Narratives in Contemporary Arab Novels35 Transnational Solidarity: Millennial Writers and Contemporary Migration Literature in Taiwan36 Representing the Arabian Gulf in Malayalam Migration Narratives37 Counter-Orientalism in Palestinian Migration Literature in Chile38 In Search of Just Memory: The Rise of Deimperialization in Asian American Narratives of ReturnPART VI Migration Literature and the Social39 Migration Literature Online: Digital Readers as Consecrating Authorities40 Texts that Assure: Selecting Picturebooks to Use with Displaced Children41 Romani Literature(s) as a Political Actor: Between the Social and the Aesthetic42 “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 TofighianIndex