Migrant Cartographies New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe

by Ponzanesi, Sandra; Merolla, Daniela; Bammer, Angelika; Buikema, Rosemarie; D'Haen, Theo; Fraser, Robert; Gilroy, Paul; Gundle, Stephen; Hargreaves, Alec; Huggan, Graham; Jansen, Ena; Khair, Tabish; Lopez-Ropero, Lourdes; McLeod, John; Pattynama, Pamela; S

• ISBN13: 9780739107546
• ISBN10: 0739107542
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-04
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude towards 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(54)
Cultural Travelers and New Literatures	1	(16)
Migrations in a Historical Perspective	17	(28)
Writers and Works Mentioned	45	(78)
Daniela Merolla and Sandra Ponzanesi
Part I: Mapping Europe: Theoretical Interventions
1 Mapping the Mind: Borders, Migration, and Myth	55	(12)
Robert Fraser
2 The Politics of the Perception of Human Movement	67	(12)
Tabish Khair
3 A Cat in a Kipper Box, or The Confessions of a "Second Generation Immigrant"	79	(14)
Paul Gilroy
4 Virtual Multiculturalism: The Case of Contemporary Britain	93	(18)
Graham Huggan
5 One Bangle Does Not Jingle: Cultures, Literatures, and Migration in a Globalizing World	111	(12)
Mineke Schipper
Part II: Writing across the Borders: New Literatures in Europe
6 Stranger in a Strange Land: Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier	123	(14)
Theo D'haen
7 From Guest Worker to Hybrid Immigrant: Changing Themes of German-Turkish Literature	137	(14)
Meyda Yegenoglu
8 "Between Foreign and Floating Signs": The Language of Migrant Subjects	151	(14)
Angelika Bammer
9 Roots and Routes: Diaspora, Travel Writing, and Caryl Phillips's Sounding of the Black Atlantic	165	(12)
Lourdes López-Ropero
10 A Poetics of Home: On Narrative Voice and the Deconstruction of Home in Migrant Literature	177	(12)
Rosemarie Buikema
11 "The Risks Migrating Words Take": Some Thoughts on the Afrikaans Poetry of Elisabeth Eybers in a Context of Transmigration	189	(16)
Ena Jansen
Part III: Mind the Gap! Cultural Trans/Formations
12 Street Culture: Dead End or Global Highway?	205	(12)
Alec G. Hargreaves
13 "Migrant Websites," WebArt, and Digital Imagination	217	(12)
Daniela Merolla
14 "London-stylee!": Recent Representations of Postcolonial London	229	(10)
John McLeod
15 The Colonial Past in the Postcolonial Present: Cultural Memory, Gender, and Race in Dutch Cinema	239	(14)
Pamela Pattynama
16 Miss Italia in Black and White: Feminine Beauty and Ethnic Identity in Modern Italy	253	(14)
Stephen Gundle
17 Outlandish Cinema: Screening the Other in Italy	267	(14)
Sandra Ponzanesi
Index of Terms	281	(4)
Index of Names	285	(2)
About the Editors and Contributors	287