Poetics of the Migrant

Kevin Potter is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, working in the broad domains of literary studies and critical theory. His published work has engaged migration and diaspora through a variety of theoretical lenses and has appeared in ARIEL, Poetics Today, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, New Formations, and Incontri. His public writing has appeared in Jacobin, ROAR Magazine, Monthly Review, The Millions, and Dissident Voice.

We are living through one of the largest human migrations ever recorded, and among our thoughts should be the pathos and creativity of its travellers, treated here with admiration and scholarly dedication. Proposing a unique movement-oriented methodology for making sense of the vast literary and poetic innovations happening all around us, this brilliant, well-researched and lucid book will be cited for years to come.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Toward a Movement-Oriented PoeticsPart I1. How Kinopoetics Works2. Movement InterventionsPart 23. Destructive Kinopoetics4. Wandering Kinopoetics5. Stuttering KinopoeticsConclusionReferencesIndex