This monumental book, investigating central questions about how complex, transnational, diasporic identities are shaped in the context of displacement and mobility, demonstrates how literary accounts offer guides for understanding the culturally particular in global contexts. The multidirectional gaze of the scholars and the texts discussed provides a dynamic model for understanding identity in transit. Readers looking for both literature and commentary that challenge East/West binaries will find those voices here, in a profound exploration of memory, home, and displacement.

Amy Shuman, The Ohio State University

Global Identities in Transit is a timely and interdisciplinary collection that invites us to rethink the formation of identity in an era of increased cultural encounters and mobility. By challenging nation-based thinking and emphasizing the plurality and polycentricity of the world, this important volume sheds much-needed light on multiple migrations, transnational narratives, and ethics of representation in ways that promote equity and challenge the legacies of nationalisms, colonialism, and dehumanization.

Jopi Nyman, School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland

This is a welcome contribution to diaspora studies that sheds new light on well-known writers and introduces more recent ones.

Waïl S. Hassan, author of Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature