Migrant Cartographies: New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-colonial Europe

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Sandra Ponzanesi, Daniela Merolla
Lexington Books, 2005 - 291 pages
In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional insight, this volume explores the most recent literature on migration as seen from different European viewpoints. This book fills a conspicuous void in migration literature, as there are no comprehensive books on migrant literatures in Europe that address the full range of complexities of colonial legacies and linguistic productions.

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Introduction
1
MIGRATIONS IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
17
WRITERS AND WORKS MENTIONED
45
MAPPING EUROPE THEORETICAL INTERVENTIONS
53
Mapping the Mind Borders Migration and Myth
55
The Politics of the Perception of Human Movement
67
A Cat in a Kipper Box or The Confessions of a Second Generation Immigrant
79
Virtual Multiculturalism The Case of Contemporary Britain
93
A Poetics of Home On Narrative Voice and the Deconstruction of Home in Migrant Literature
177
The Risks Migrating Words Take Some Thoughts on the Afrikaans Poetry of Elisabeth Eybers in a Context of Transmigration
189
MIND THE GAP CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
203
Street Culture Dead End or Global Highway?
205
Migrant Websites WebArt and Digital Imagination
217
Londonstylee Recent Representations of Postcolonial London
229
The Colonial Past in the Postcolonial Present Cultural Memory Gender and Race in Dutch Cinema
239
Miss Italia in Black and White Feminine Beauty and Ethnic Identity in Modern Italy
253

One Bangle Does Not Jingle Cultures Literatures and Migration in a Globalizing World
111
WRITING ACROSS THE BORDERS NEW LITERATURES IN EUROPE
121
Stranger in a Strange Land Jamal Mahjoubs The Carrier
123
From Guest Worker to Hybrid Immigrant Changing Themes of GermanTurkish Literature
137
Between Foreign and Floating Signs The Language of Migrant Subjects
151
Roots and Routes Diaspora Travel Writing and Caryl Phillipss Sounding of the Black Atlantic
165
Outlandish Cinema Screening the Other in Italy
267
Index of Terms
281
Index of Names
285
About the Editors and Contributors
287
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