Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Cultureengages with migration to, within, and from Europe,foregrounding migration through thelensesof historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essayson literature,film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook's contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors areintegrated throughoutthe volume.The essays collected in the volume movebeyond the discourse of the "refugee crisis" to tracethehistorical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization.