The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration : Critical and Creative Voices (1946-2016).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bertacco, Simona, editor.

Boelhower, William Q., editor.

Vallorani, Nicoletta, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Bloomsbury handbooks.

Bloomsbury Handbooks

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

Focusing on a significant 70-year period as a climactic phase of displacement, the book investigates the role of literature in producing new modes of representing and understanding migration in a global context.

Contents:

Introduction / Nicoletta Vallorani, Simona Bertacco, and William Boelhower

Nomadic philosophy : thresholds of sustainability / Rosi Braidotti

Borderlines stories : migrants at the center of world history / William Boelhower

America's right refuge / Timothy Brennan

The edge of continents, the insistence of the sea : narratives of Mediterranean migration / Marta Cariello

Hospitality within : migrant literature and the translation effect / Loredana Polezzi

Migrant be/longing : digital connectedness in an age of solidarity / Sandra Ponzanesi

The coming migrations : violence, movements, and transculturation / Rinaldo Walcott

Writing/reading the Black Mediterranean / Alessandra Di Maio

Unaccompanied, undocumented, unwanted, and underground : contemporary narratives of migration al Norte Marion / Christina Rohrleitner

Gender violence as metaphor : literature of the Indian Partition / Radhika Mohanran

Crocheting earthly communities into existence : Chris Abani's commitment to art as a transformative rite / Annalisa Oboe

The smell of home : East European migration networks in Aleksandar Hemon's Nowhere man / Anca Parvulescu & Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Charles Reznikoff's lyrical affirmation of diasporic and migratory identities / Ranen Omer-Sherman

"An alphabet of hereness" : literature and migration in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Michelle Keown

"I am anger myself" : British new slaveries and genre fiction in Jonathan Coe's Number 11 / Pietro Deandrea

Muslim immigrants and American comics / Esra Mirze Santesso

Unruly migration narratives in the neoliberal world-system : subverting the "success story" in Neel Mukherjee, Roxanne Gay, and Julie Otsuka / Lucio De Capitani

The Middle Passage refigured : African migration in science fiction / Nicoletta Vallorani

Travel and translation in Anglophone diaspora poetry / Nicoletta Vallorani

An ethics of nonmonolingualism : migration in and into Derek Walcott's Omeros / Till Dembeck

The Migrant Experience in Italian-Canadian Women's Writing Deborah Saidero

Re-grounding through estrangement : myth, technology, and identity in African women's migration narratives / Anna Pasolini

Vietnamese literature of migration / Marguerite Nguyen

The rise of Black British consciousness and its effects on British cultural identity / Ester Gendusa

Deracination & overseas trajectories : speculations on the Filipino diasporic experience / E. San Juan Jr.

The art of not belonging / Pauline Melville

No matter where I am, I am an exile / Tlotlo Tsamaase (in conversation with N. Vallorani)

Lazarus's silence / Maaza Mengiste (in conversation with S. Bertacco)

We are human beings / Behrouz Boochani (in conversation with N. Vallorani)

To undo and undo / Dionne Brand

A story with many names / Chika Unigwe (in conversation with S. Bertacco)

Crossing borders through storytelling / Merlinda Bobis and Marie-Therese Sulit

Trojan Women Project, and beyond / William Stirling and Charlotte Eagar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9798765103562

9798765103555

9798765103548

OCLC:

1520505473