Migrants shaping Europe, past and present: Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures

This Comparative Collection Makes The Case For The Sustained Contribution Of Migrants To European Literatures, Arts And Social Cultures, In Early Modern Times And Today. Iberia/maghreb, Sicily/lampedusa And Calais Provide Key Examples For Composing This New Chapter In Cultural History. Introduction -- Part I: A Premodern Cultural History -- 1 Astrolabe: From 'mathematical Jewel' To Cultural Connector -- Pedro M. P. Raposo

part Ii: Migrating In Spanish -- 2 The Expulsion Of The Moriscos: Still More Questions Than Answers James S. Amelang -- 3 Translating Migrant Precarity In Rachid Nini's Diario De Un Ilegal Anna Tybinko -- Part Iii: Migrating In Italian -- 4 The World Is My Homeland: Exile And Migration From Ibn Hamdis To Dante Akash Kumar -- 5 Superman In Italy: The Power Of The Refugee Artist Saskia Ziolkowski -- 6 Porta D'europa: Monumentality, Entropy And Migration On Lampedusa Tenley Bick -- Part Iv: Migrating In French -- 7 Calais Enclave: Fictions For Locking In And Opening Up Helen Solterer -- 8 Calais Campscape: A Short History Of Immigration Deterrence At The French-british Border Vincent Joos And Eric Leleu -- Part V: Arts Of Migration -- 9 In Transit: Arts Of Migration Around Europe The Nasher Museum Collective -- 10 Cornered Raquel Salvatella De Prada -- Index. Edited By Helen Solterer, Vincent Joos. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Available In Print Form. In English.