Poetics of the Migrant

Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Kevin Potter, University of Vienna) Potter, Kevin (Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of English and American Studies

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Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility. But, beyond depicting migration, is it possible for migrant literature to be a force of movement itself? Poetics of the Migrant calls upon the philosophy of movement and a counter-history of migration to invent a theory and method for analysing migrant literature. The text uncovers patterns of movement that migrant texts enact and create in other words, a movement-oriented poetics. Poetics of the Migrant understands movement as the defining force of human history; and the migrant is the primary figure of cultural and political transformation. Migrant literature makes it possible to transform how we process and interpret social history through social motion. Perhaps, from here, we can imagine a different world: one where movement and migrancy are legible and thinkable.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2025-05-01
  • Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
  • Vikt596 g
  • FormatHäftad
  • SpråkEngelska
  • Antal sidor384
  • FörlagEdinburgh University Press
  • ISBN9781399525008