Figures of the Migrant : The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration (Hardcover)

Part I Overview 1. The roles of literature and the arts in representing the migrant and migration - Siobhan Brownlie Part II Critiques of Definitions, Representations and Ideologies 2. Representations of child ‘migrants’ in Akli Tadjer’s Le Porteur de Cartable - Fiona Barclay 3. Bridging migratory fault-lines: Francis Alys’s performance at the Strait of Gibraltar - David Alvarez 4. Mediterranean connections: representing the migrant’s journey in Le voyage des ames by Mounsi - Jonathan Lewis Part III Deeper Insights into Being a Migrant 5. Writing the voice of the ‘other’: Maggie Gee and Antonio Manzini narrating migrant care workers - Nicoletta Di Ciolla and Serena Guarracino 6. Visual explorations of a new life: language, identity and landscape in El futuro perfecto and Ingen Ko Pa Isen - Carmen Herrero 7. ‘I love, you fear, we leave’: representations of emotion and migrancy in Berni Searle’s Home and Away and Seeking Refuge - Nicola Cloete 8. The father as a figure of exile: desire and sublimation in Naomi Shihab Nye’s ‘My Father and the Figtree’ - Redouane Abouddahab Part IV Migration through Particular Prisms 9. SHE-menism: Girl-trafficking and the gendered experiences of forced migrations in Soji Cole’s Embers - Julie Umukoro 10. ‘Times are connected through land and bodies’ in Native American literature: living landscapes in Toni Jensen and Layli Long Soldier - Wes Atkinson Part V Trajectories for the Future 11. Screening young migrants and cosmopolitan mobility: Julie Bertuccelli’s　Cour de Babel　- Isabelle Vanderschelden 12. Conclusion - Siobhan Brownlie and Redouane Abouddahab