Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe

Migration is radically changing European ideas of culture and identity. Today, the demographic makeup of Europe can be represented only through complex ethnic, cultural and linguistic cartographies. Yet scholarly research into migration has been largely confined to the political and social sciences; only recently has migration attracted attention from the humanities and literary studies.
Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe focuses on literature which deals with the experience of migration, often written in a language acquired through migration. The contributors look beyond the stereotyped discourse of alienation, subversion and invasion too often associated with the subject of migration. The essays discuss theoretical and methodological approaches to migration literature at times from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, and they relate migration to similar phenomena such as the literature of exile, diaspora or postcolonialism. By analyzing a diverse range of texts in many different European languages and from various cultural contexts, the essays reveal new ways of understanding Europe in transition.

Autorentext

Mirjam Gebauer holds a Ph.D. in German literature and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Pia Schwarz Lausten is associate professor of Italian literature in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Inhalt

Mirjam Gebauer & Pia Schwarz Lausten Migration Literature: Europe in Transition 1 Concepts and Methodologies Azade Seyhan Unfinished Modernism: European Destinations of Transnational Writing 11 Charles Lock Elsewhere: Tracing the Evidence 23 Søren Frank Four Theses on Migration and Literature 39 Jørn Boisen Nostalgia: The Longing for Sameness 59 Recent Tendencies Wolfgang Behschnitt The Voice of the 'Real Migrant': Contemporary Migration Literature in Sweden 77 Pia Schwarz Lausten Living in a Language: Italian Migration Literature 93 Mirjam Gebauer Network and Movement: Two Tropes in Recent German Migration Literature and Film 113 Moritz Schramm After the 'Cartoons': The Rise of a New Danish Migration literature? 131 Christina Horvath Migrant Writing as a Strategy of Legacy Hunting in the French Literary Field 149 European (Hi)stories Charles Bonn Migration et parole littéraire déplacée, entre France et Maghreb 167 Kirsten Thisted Migrants, or Living the Postcolonial? Greenlandic Authors in Transnational Space 185 Daniele Comberiati 'Missioni': Double Identity and Plurilingualism in the Works of three Female Migrant Writers in Italy 205 Anna Rodzevich The Theme of Labor in Contemporary Volga German Literature 219 Patterns Compared Nora Moll Migrant Literature in Italy and Europe: Patterns Compared 233 Thomas Ernst 'Kanak Sprak' and Union Suspecte: Scandals Around Hybrid and Multilingual Literature in Germany and Belgium 243 Henriette Louwerse "Fed with the Same Food". Dutch Authors Hafid Bouazza and Abdelkader Benali Act on Shakespeare 259 Heidrun Hörner Stereotypes of China and Europe in the Writings of Chinese Migrant Writers in Germany and France 271 Readings Sten Pultz Moslund Danish Identity and the Migrant Hero's Hybridising Gaze in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier 287 Marie Lauritzen "Back to London": Subject and City in Bernardine Evaristo's Lara 305 Maria Mayr Among and Between: Alterity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn 319 Katja Lehnert Irony, Hybridity and Agency in Meera Syal's Anita and Me 333 Liesbeth Minnaard Moving Moroccan Memories: Hafid Bouazza's Critical Re-Vision of De voeten van Abdullah 349 Contributors 363