About the Book
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Narrating Migration in the Settler Colonies: Recent Climate Fiction in Australia and New Zealand.- Chapter 3: Invasion and Replacement Fantasies: Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints and the French Far Right.- Chapter 4: Between History and the Discord of Time: The Figure of the Migrant in A Seventh Man and Transit.- Chapter 5: A Border Poetics of Migration: Five Mappings of Migration Literature in Norwegian and Swedish.- Chapter 6: "A Strangely Familiar Place”: Cinematic (Re)framings of the EU’s Easternmost Border. Chapter 7: Migration, Romani Writers, and the Question of National Literatures. Chapter 8: Introduction.- Chapter 9: Setting the Stage of Contemporary Migration in the Italian Hostile Environment. Chapter 10: The Dystopian Imaginary, Climate Migration, and “Lifeboat-Nationalism”. Chapter 11: Black Parisians in Merry Colors: Queerness and Creolisation in the Popular Comedies of Lucien Jean-Baptiste.- Chapter 12: Classification and the Secrets of Kinship: Migration, Scientific Naturalism, and the Racialization of Blood in the Eighteenth Century.- Chapter 13: “There’s ways to survive these times… and I think one way is the shape the telling takes”: Hostile Environments and Hospitable Connections in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet.- Chapter 14: Introduction.- Chapter 15: Migration, Forced Displacement, and Aesthetic Agency: Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas Raum. Chapter 16: Comparing Migrations? Russian German Jewish Writers on the “Refugee Crisis”. Chapter 17: Literary Archives and Alternative Futures. Memories of Labor Migration in Contemporary Turkish German Fiction. Chapter 18: On the Afterlife of Lucrecia Pérez: Literature and Migrant Memory against Nationalist Myth-Making in Democratic Spain. Chapter 19: On the Afterlife of Lucrecia Pérez: Literature and Migrant Memory against Nationalist Myth-Making in Democratic Spain. Chapter 20: Muslim Interpellation: Hijabs, Beards, and the Post-9/11 Border Regime. Chapter 21: Another Home. Chapter 22: Introduction.- Chapter 23: “Struggles with Identity Don’t Care about Latitude”: Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft (Where You Come From) as “Born Translated” Text.- Chapter 24: Verstummung”: Carmine Abate’s Dislocative Voices.- Chapter 25: Going for Nothing: Migration and Translation in Christina Rivera Garza.- Chapter 26: “Life Goes on, Defying Common Sense”: On Translating Russian Émigré Poetry.- Chapter 27: "It is hard to choose": An Italian Author on Migration, Diaspora, African Literature, and the Limits of Labels.- Chapter 28: Poetry as Love and Resistance.- Chapter 29: Introduction.- Chapter 30: Sound in Place: Italian Migrant Street Music in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel.- Chapter 31: Restorying the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange and the Partition of India and Palestine through Graphic Narrative: Hand-drawn Lines, Embroidered Histories, Portable Homelands.- Chapter 32: “Resonance is Contact Ripple”: Media and Contemporary Poems of Mediterranean Migration. Chapter 33: Ways of Seeing: Ethics of Looking in Refugee Films after 2015.- Chapter 34: Curating Hospitality: Towards a More Sensitive Perception of Vulnerability.- Chapter 35: Introduction.- Chapter 36: Reading the Politics of Exile: Matei Vișniec’s Mr. K Released.- Chapter 37: Hassan Blasim’s God 99: Staying with Fragments, Designing Other Worlds.- Chapter 38: Melancholia of Migration in the Transnational Italian Imaginary.- Chapter 39: “not safe any where anymore”: Biopolitical Poetics and Irish Migration Poetry.- Chapter 40: “a historian of the soft tissue”: An Interview with Bhanu Kapil.
About the Author :
Corina Stan is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Duke University, USA. She is the author of The Art of Distances. Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) and of articles published in Comparative Literature Studies, New German Critique, English Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Modern Language Notes, The European Journal of English Studies, Etudes britanniques, Critical Inquiry, Philosophy and Literature, NOVEL, several collective volumes, as well as public-oriented venues such as The Point, Aeon, LA Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Between 2017 and 2020, she was co-director of the Representing Migration Humanities Lab at Duke University, funded by a Humanities Unbounded Mellon grant.
Charlotte Sussman is Professor of English at Duke University, USA. She is the author of three books—Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus (2020); Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1660-1789 (2011); and Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833 (2000) —and the co-editor, with Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, of Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Histories of British Fiction, 1780-1830 (2008). Her articles on eighteenth-century literature, colonialism, migration, and slavery have appeared in PMLA, Modern Philology, ELH, Cultural Critique, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and other journals and edited collections. Between 2017 and 2020, she was co-director of the Representing Migration Humanities Lab at Duke University, funded by a Humanities Unbounded Mellon grant.
