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In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional insight, this volume explores the most recent literature on migration as seen from different European viewpoints. This book fills a conspicuous void in migration literature, as there are no comprehensive books on migrant literatures in Europe that address the full range of complexities of colonial legacies and linguistic productions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Mapping Europe: Theoretical Interventions
Chapter 3 Mapping the Mind: Borders, Migration, and Myth
Chapter 4 The Politics of the Perception of Human Movement
Chapter 5 A Cat in a Kipper Box or, the Confession of a 'Second Generation Immigrant'
Chapter 6 Virtual Multiculturalism: The Case of Contemporary Britain
Chapter 7 One Bangle Does Not Jingle: Cultures, Literatures, and Migration in a Globalizing World
Part 8 Writing Across the Borders: New Literatures in Europe
Chapter 9 Stranger in a Strange Land: Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier
Chapter 10 From Guest Worker to Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themes of German-Turkish Literature
Chapter 11 Between Foreign and Floating Signs: The Language of Migrant Subjects
Chapter 12 Roots and Routes: Diaspora, Travel Writing, and Caryl Phillips's Sounding of the Black Atlantic
Chapter 13 On Narrative Voice and the Deconstruction of Home in Migrant Literature
Chapter 14 'The Risks Migrating Words Take.' Some thoughts on the Afrikaans Poetry of Elisabeth Eybers in a context of transmigration
Part 15 Mind the Gap! Cultural Trans/formations
Chapter 16 Street Culture: Dead End or Global Highway?
Chapter 17 Digital Imagination and 'Migrant' Websites
Chapter 18 'London Stylee': Recent Representations of Postcolonial London
Chapter 19 The Colonial Past in the Postcolonial Present: Cultural Memory, Gender, and Race in Dutch Cinema
Chapter 20 Miss Italia in Black and White: Feminine Beauty and Ethnic Identity in Modern Italy
Chapter 21 Outlandish Cinema: Screening the Other in Italy

Product details

Published Jul 15 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 300
ISBN 9780739107553
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 7 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Sandra Ponzanesi

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Daniela Merolla

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Angelika Bammer

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Rosemarie Buikema

Rosemarie Buikema is Professor of Art, Culture and…

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Theo D'Haen

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Robert Fraser

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Paul Gilroy

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Stephen Gundle

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Graham Huggan

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Ena Jansen

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Tabish Khair

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John McLeod

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