THE CULTURE OF MIGRATION IN BRITISH MODERNIST FICTION
THE CULTURE OF MIGRATION IN BRITISH MODERNIST FICTION

Summary/Abstract: Issues of migration and exile have been explored by a wide range of well-known postcolonial writers such as V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Monica Ali and many others, whose work has gained interest since the end of the Second World War. However, in the first half of the twentieth century, before the boom of the Caribbean and Asian migration novels, leading figures of the modernist movement had also dealt with experiences of exile, alienation and displacement, whether forced or self-imposed. This essay will examine a selection of texts by four representative modernist novelists – Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence – to show how, long before the postcolonial period, they addressed the essence of migration.

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