Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe

This innovative collection of essays on contemporary migration literature and culture in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality. The authors address the role of integration, waiting, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures in narratives of the European refugee crisis and migrant border-crossings.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Understanding Temporalities of Cross-Border Migration, Jopi Nyman, Johan Schimanski, and Carmen Zamorano Llena
Part One: Pasts and Futures: Migrants in/to Europe
Chapter One: Border Temporalities, Temporal Borders: Migratory Border-Crossings in Literature and Other Discourses, Johan Schimanski
Chapter Two: Spatiotemporal Palimpsests, Remembered Times, and Hybrid Temporalities in Literary and Graphic Narratives on Europe's Refugee 'Crisis', Olga Michael
Chapter Three: "I'll never let myself die in a strange land that doesn't want me": A Life Course Approach to the Temporal Subjectivities of Older Migrants in Abdulrazak Gurnah's The Last Gift, Carmen Zamorano Llena
Part Two: Eldorados in Future: Migrants in/to Spain
Chapter Four: Temporalities of Crossing in Laila Lalami's Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Jopi Nyman
Chapter Five: Lost Pasts and Rescued Traumas: Migration and Temporality in Rafael Chirbes' En la orilla, Carolina León Vegas
Chapter Six: Time, Caves, and Other Limboscapes in Three Contemporary Migrant Narratives, Carles Magrinyà Badiella
Part Three: Living through Times of Migration
Chapter Seven: Investing in Immigrants as a Permanent Resource: The Local Integration Strategies of a Peripheral Town, Ágnes Németh and Sarolta Németh
Chapter Eight: The Narrative Practice of Ruth Reese: Blackness, Temporality, and Braiding Time in Norway, Michelle A. Tisdel
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Jopi Nyman; Johan Schimanski and Carmen Zamorano Llena - Contributions by Carolina León Vegas; Carles Magrinyà Badiella; Olga Michael; Ágnes Németh; Sarolta Németh; Jopi Nyman; Johan Schimanski; Michelle A. Tisdel and Carmen Zamorano Llena

Product details

• Authors: Jopi Nyman, Jopi Schimanski Nyman, Nyman Jopi
• Assisted by: Nyman Jopi (Editor), Johan Schimanski (Editor), Schimanski Johan (Editor), Carmen Zamorano Llena (Editor), Zamorano Llena Carmen (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2024
• EAN: 9781666945027
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-502-7
• No. of pages: 190
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Literature: history & criticism