ABSTRACT
Starting from a personal note, the introduction expands the personal experience into a more familiar collective experience of displacement. The introduction situates the area of research, highlighting the urgency for cross-disciplinary research between refugee studies and literature in an era of global mobility. The introduction situates theories of postcolonialism, postmodernism, transnationalism, and postnationalism to point out how refugee studies, as an area, can benefit from and expand these existing theories. The introduction also works on laying the foundation of the book in regard to issues of mobile bodies who have experienced different levels of displacement. The intensity and the heterogeneity of the refugee experience cannot be wholly incorporated into only one work, but the introduction sheds some light on certain shared elements. There are areas where the introduction examines to define broad spectrums and to poses questions to complicate theories of postmodernism, universalism, and mobility studies.
