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Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kevin PotterPublish date:2023-10-17Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399524995ISBN-10:1399524992UPC:9781399524995Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Modern, Aesthetics, MovementsBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.5807Product ID:SC7BH1AWDS

Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility. But, beyond depicting migration, is it possible for migrant literature to be a force of movement itself? Poetics of the Migrant calls upon the philosophy of movement and a counter-history of migration to invent a theory and method for analysing migrant literature. The text uncovers patterns of movement that migrant texts enact and create - in other words, a movement-oriented poetics. Poetics of the Migrant understands movement as the defining force of human history; and the migrant is the primary figure of cultural and political transformation. Migrant literature makes it possible to transform how we process and interpret social history through social motion. Perhaps, from here, we can imagine a different world: one where movement and migrancy are legible and thinkable.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399524995ISBN-10:1399524992UPC:9781399524995Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Modern, Aesthetics, MovementsBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.5807Product ID:SC7BH1AWDS

Kevin Potter is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, working in the broad domains of literary studies and critical theory. His published work has engaged migration and diaspora through a variety of theoretical lenses and has appeared in ARIEL, Poetics Today, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, New Formations, and Incontri. His public writing has appeared in Jacobin, ROAR Magazine, Monthly Review, The Millions, and Dissident Voice.


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