Displacement, Memory, and Travel in Contemporary Migrant Writing

Displacement, Memory, And Travel In Contemporary Migrant Writing' Examines Contemporary Cultural Representations Of Transforming Identities In The Era Of Increasing Global Mobility. It Pays Particular Attention To The Ways In Which Cultural Encounters Are Experienced Affectively And Discursively In Migrant Literature. Divided Into Three Parts That Deal With Refugee Writing And Displacement, Migration And Memory, And New European Identities, The Volume Develops Current Methodologies And Shows How Postcolonial Studies Can Be Applied To The Study Of Cultural Encounters. Introduction -- Part 1. Refugees And Displaced Migrants. Introduction To Part 1; Refugee(s) Writing: Displacement In Contemporary Narratives Of Forced Migration; Mapping Refugee Spaces In Simao Kikamba's Going Home; Transnational Migrant Identity In Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier; Borders And Transitive Identities In Jamal Mahjoub's Last Thoughts On The Medusa -- Part 2. Memories Of Migration. Introduction To Part 2; Home, Memory, And Identity In The Culinary Memoirs By Madhur Jaffrey And Diana Abu-jaber; Migration And Melancholia In Abdulrazak Gurnah's Pilgrims Way; Transnational Spaces, Identities, And Memories In Caryl Phillips' Dancing In The Dark. Jopi Nyman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.