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Fictions of Migration in Contemporary Britain and Ireland

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Authors:
  1. Carmen Zamorano Llena

    1. Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden

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  • Questions existing definitions of migration literature which generally focus on the work of authors with migrant background

  • Subverts traditional approaches to British and Irish literature

  • Argues for the need to incorporate migration as inherent to definitions of national literature

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Migration, Mobility and the Redefinition of National Literatures in a Global Context

    • Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Pages 1-31

  3. A Cosmopolitan Revision of the Postcolonial “Home” in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore and Foreigners

    • Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Pages 33-60

  4. From Exilic to Mobile Identities: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and the Cosmopolitanisation of Irish Reality

    • Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Pages 61-83

  5. “Memories of Lost Things”: Narratives of Afropolitan Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Gravel Heart

    • Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Pages 85-105

  6. Against the Fear of Complexity: Ethical and Aesthetic Engagement with De-racialising the Muslim Migrant in Elif Shafak’s Honour

    • Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Pages 107-134

  7. Solidarity Through the Bare Life of Migrants and “noeuds de mémoire” in Rose Tremain’s The Colour and The Gustav Sonata

    • Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Pages 135-173

  8. “A Map of Bird Migration”: Redefinitions of National Identity Through Transnational Mobility and Multidirectional Memory in Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky

    • Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Pages 175-196

  9. Concluding Remarks: Timespace and Affective Networks in Contemporary Fictions of Migration

    • Carmen Zamorano Llena
    Pages 197-206

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 207-211
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About this book

This book examines how the transcultural and transnational migration of people, texts, and ideas has transformed the paradigm of national literature, with Britain and Ireland as case studies. The study questions definitions of migration and migrant literature that focus solely on the work of authors with migrant backgrounds, and suggests that migration is not extraneous but intrinsic to contemporary understandings of national literature in a global context. The fictional work of authors such as Caryl Phillips, Colum McCann, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Rose Tremain, Elif Shafak, and Evelyn Conlon is analysed from a variety of perspectives, including transculturality, cosmopolitanism, and Afropolitanism, so as to emphasise how their work fosters an understanding of national literature, as well as of individual and collective identities, based on transborder interconnectivity. 

Reviews

​“A well-conceived, articulate, and persuasive book. This welcome intervention into current critical thinking about literatures of migration and theories of migrant 
identities advances scholarship on the subject in an engaging and accessible 
manner.”
—Dr. Tony Murray, London Metropolitan University, UK

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden

    Carmen Zamorano Llena

About the author

Carmen Zamorano Llena is Associate Professor of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. She was previously Lecturer in English at University of Lleida, Spain. She is Series Co-editor of the Culture Identity Studies series with Peter Lang and Literary Editor of Nordic Irish Studies. Her co-edited collections include Redefinitions of Irish Identity: A Postnationalist Approach (2010), Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature (2013) and Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland: Studies in Literature and Culture (2015).

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