Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jopi Nyman is professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus.
Johan Schimanski is professor of comparative literature at the University of Oslo.
Carmen Zamorano Llena is professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden.
Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality as seen in the role of such issues as integration, waiting, detention, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures. This book argues that a focus on different time scales and perceptions of time will help us understand how the intimate and affective subjectivities of more complex narratives of migration, as articulated in literature, cross into the public sphere and challenge political ‘bubbles.’ This collection showcases new approaches to and innovative readings of different forms of literary and cultural migration narratives. In addition to developing theoretical tools for the study, the authors present innovative case studies addressing topics such as the European refugee crisis, migration narratives and border crossings in Britain, Spain, and Morocco, as well as experiences of migration in Finland and Norway.
This innovative collection of essays on contemporary migration literature and culture in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality. The authors address the role of integration, waiting, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures in narratives of the European refugee crisis and migrant border-crossings.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Understanding Temporalities of Cross-Border Migration, Jopi Nyman, Johan Schimanski, and Carmen Zamorano Llena
Part One: Pasts and Futures: Migrants in/to Europe
Chapter One: Border Temporalities, Temporal Borders: Migratory Border-Crossings in Literature and Other Discourses, Johan Schimanski
Chapter Two: Spatiotemporal Palimpsests, Remembered Times, and Hybrid Temporalities in Literary and Graphic Narratives on Europe’s Refugee ‘Crisis’, Olga Michael
Chapter Three: “I’ll never let myself die in a strange land that doesn’t want me”: A Life Course Approach to the Temporal Subjectivities of Older Migrants in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift, Carmen Zamorano Llena
Part Two: Eldorados in Future: Migrants in/to Spain
Chapter Four: Temporalities of Crossing in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Jopi Nyman
Chapter Five: Lost Pasts and Rescued Traumas: Migration and Temporality in Rafael Chirbes’ En la orilla, Carolina León Vegas
Chapter Six: Time, Caves, and Other Limboscapes in Three Contemporary Migrant Narratives, Carles Magrinyà Badiella
Part Three: Living through Times of Migration
Chapter Seven: Investing in Immigrants as a Permanent Resource: The Local Integration Strategies of a Peripheral Town, Ágnes Németh and Sarolta Németh
Chapter Eight: The Narrative Practice of Ruth Reese: Blackness, Temporality, and Braiding Time in Norway, Michelle A. Tisdel
About the Contributors
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Jopi Nyman is professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus.
Johan Schimanski is professor of comparative literature at the University of Oslo.
Carmen Zamorano Llena is professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden.