Figures Of The Migrant: The Roles Of Literature And The Arts In Representing Migration (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Literature)

The roles of literature and the arts in representing the migrant and migration / Siobhan Brownlie -- Critiques of definitions, representations and ideologies. Representations of child 'migrants' in Akli Tadjer's Le porteur de Cartable / Fiona Barclay -- Bridging migratory fault-lines : Francis Alÿs's performance at the Strait of Gibraltar / David Álvarez -- Mediterranean connections : representing the migrant's journey in Le voyage des âmes by Mounsi / Jonathan Lewis -- Deeper insights into being a migrant. Writing the voice of the 'other' : Maggie Gee and Antonio Manzini narrating migrant care workers / Nicoletta Di Ciolla and Serena Guarracino -- Visual explorations of a new life : language, identity and landscape in El futuro perfecto and Ingen Ko På Isen / Carmen Herrero -- 'I love, you fear, we leave' : representations of emotion and migrancy in Berni Searle's Home and away and Seeking refuge / Nicola Cloete -- The father as a figure of exile : desire and sublimation in Naomi Shihab Nye's 'My father and the figtree' / Rédouane Abouddahab -- Migration through particular prisms. SHE-menism : girl-trafficking and the gendered experiences of forced migrations in Soji Cole's Embers / Julie Umukoro -- 'Times are connected through land and bodies' in Native American literature : living landscapes in Toni Jensen and Layli Long Soldier / Wes Atkinson -- Trajectories for the future. Screening young migrants and cosmopolitan mobility : Julie Bertuccelli's Cour de Babel / Isabelle Vanderschelden -- Conclusion / Siobhan Brownlie and Rédouane Abouddahab.

• | Author: Siobhan Brownlie, Rédouane Abouddahab
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 218 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 103206790X
• | ISBN-13: 9781032067902