Narratives of Precarious Migrancy in the Global South (1) (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

By: Gigi Adair and Carly McLaughlin

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Synopsis: This volume sets out to challenge and expand Anglophone literary migration studies in the global North with a two-fold approach. It proposes precarious migrancy as a conceptual framework to capture hitherto neglected aspects of subaltern displacement, and it turns to the global South as a site of knowledge production about migration. The chapters discuss literary narratives originally written in Chinese, Kurdish and Italian as well as English, and covering a wide geographical range, to ask what experiences and understandings of migration emerge from Southern perspectives. Across the volume, precarious migrancy emerges as a key concept for understanding contemporary globalization in general and migration in the global South in particular. The chapters offer significant reconceptualizations of precarity and migrancy by reading Southern literatures of migration as a mode of theorization of the contemporary world, contributing to the ongoing shift in framings of migration in Anglophone and postcolonial literary studies.This volume will be of significant interest to scholars in literary migration studies, global South studies, and postcolonial studies. It offers readings of rarely studied literary texts, as well as new concepts for scholars interested in understanding the nexus of literature and migration today.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 180 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040308974
Related ISBNs:: 9781003245063, 9781032156361, 9781040308950
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/14/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Gigi Adair and Carly McLaughlin
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: null Gigi Adair
Edited by:: null Carly McLaughlin