Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging

Cicilie Fagerlid was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Library Science at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, at the time of writing. Her previous research includes performance poetry on cosmopolitan and working-class Paris and the creation of new ways of being British Asian, both at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway, where she has taught extensively. Currently, she writes ethnography from public libraries.Michelle A. Tisdel holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, USA. Her research interests include heritage production and discourses of belonging in Norway and Cuba. She conducted long-term research on Cuban museums and Afro-Cuban heritage production. Tisdel works as a research librarian at the National Library of Norway and specializes in migration and heritage themes.

• 1. Introduction: Literary Anthropology, Migration, and Belonging.- 2. Take a Walk on the Shepherd Side: Transhumant Narratives and Representations.- 3. In Search of a Suitable Home or the Perpetual Minority Status: Herta Müller's Case.- 4. When Author Meets Audience: The Potentiality of Literature to Re-narrate Selves, Belonging, and National Community.- 5. Biography, Descent, and Slovenization: Literature and Slovenian Migrants in Argentina.- 6. Narratives of Competence and Confidence: Self, Society, and Belonging in Norway.- 7. From Bengal to Scotland: Hybridity, Borders and National Narratives.- 8. The Production of the Immigrant as a Perpetual Guest.