Migration, Diaspora, Exile

Daniel Stein is professor of North American literary and cultural studies and vice dean for international affairs at the University of Siegen.Geoffroy de Laforcadeis professor of Latin American, Caribbean and world history at Norfolk State University.Page R. Laws is professor of English and dean of the Robert C. Nusbaum Honors College at Norfolk State University.Cathy Covell Waegner is an independent scholar.

Offering numerous fresh insights on migration, diaspora, and exile, this book is as timely as it is thought-provoking. Taking the familiar trope of the 'Mother of Exiles' from Emma Lazarus' public poem as starting point, it combines original work from a transdisciplinary group of scholars who approach migration and exile from the perspectives of social, literary and cultural studies as well as history and philosophy. What emerges is an intense exchange of ideas akin to what Achille Mbembe has called 'world-thinking', which can be truly transformative.

• Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape – Editors’ IntroductionSection 1: Literary InterventionsChapter 1: Recuperating the Black Family in Graphic Narrative: Tom Feelings’s The Middle Passage and Kyle Baker’s Nat TurnerDaniel SteinChapter 2: Generational Doubling as Eth(n)ic Narrative Strategy: Annie Proulx’s Barkskins and Yaa Gyasi’s HomegoingCathy Covell WaegnerChapter 3: “As Much the Invader as the Native”: Investigating Immigrant and Indigenous Family Ties in Wendy Rose’s Itch Like CrazyLudmila MartanovschiChapter 4: Mothers/Lovers of Exiles: Women Characters in Dinaw Mengestu’s All Our NamesPatrycja Kurjatto-RenardChapter 5: The Securitized Migrant: Migrant Mobility and Kindred Alliances in Post-9/11 New York NovelsIsabella KarlssonSection 2: Filmic InterventionsChapter 6: Mother(less) Exiles: The New Woman’s Absence from the Migration of the Expressionists to HollywoodMichele RozgaChapter 7: Go West, Young Men: Teutonic Myths and American Westerns