ABSTRACT
This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It examines the experiences of migration as a result of wars, natural disasters, religious strife, loss of livelihoods and shifts in local and global economies and the vulnerabilities they expose.
Bringing together scholarly insights into literature about displacement and migration from Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the book interrogates the development frames of Western modernity and situates displacement within the discourse of disenfranchisement of citizens by nation-states. It explores the experiences, memories and expressions of displacement in literature and how literary works critique ethical and moral responsibilities of states and communities that often do not account for the loss which displacement causes to the health, education, career, or relationships of displaced people.
The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, philosophy, migration and diaspora studies, development studies, African studies and Asian studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|115 pages
Displacement
chapter 3|19 pages
America * in the Contemporary Postcolonial African Imagination
chapter 4|20 pages
Nativizing Colonial Ghosts in the Postcolony
part II|35 pages
The Literary Politics and Phenomenology of Displacement and Belonging
chapter 8|13 pages
The Libraries of the Migrants
part III|84 pages
Writing Displacement
chapter 11|22 pages
Interrogating, Confronting and Reconstituting Displacement and a New Politics, Poetics and Spirituality of Dwelling
chapter 13|16 pages
Writing Displacement
part IV|15 pages
Locating Displacement