ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows that the term displacement can function to consider refugees’ writing as a device for articulating their subjectivity. He argues that through literary criticism, studies as this will also explore the forms of identity construction and will reveal the complexities surrounding the (re-)construction of the notion of home and identity in an era of global mobilities. The author seeks to address, therefore, concern the effects of dislocation and nostalgia on refugee writing, and the ways liminality becomes a permanent feature in reconstructing refugee identity beyond the shared traumatic experiences and amnesia at home. The presence of the notion of homeland on refugee identity remains a dominant theme in the selected poems, especially in noting that the refugee identity is in a state of becoming. Moreover, refugee poetry is considered a new category that debates the notion of forced migration in the era of globalization.
