Exploring Diversity: The Literature of Migration
Exploring Diversity: The Literature of Migration

Summary/Abstract: All modern forms of migration are being state controlled through the politics of migration. These kinds of movements enter interdisciplinary fields that can shed light upon how (new) societies appear. It would be more relevant to explore the manner in which migration and European memory seem to be intertwined. Literature uses its own means to find proper instruments and show how migration has turned into a fundamental condition of mankind. In the German speaking world we encounter the term “literature of migration”. There are several criteria deployed to define literature written by non-natives. The components of migration, identity, discourses on Otherness and the role of the state in the migration process are all part of a discourse on migration and “orienting diversity”. How does a literature of migration in the German space enter a dialog with a rather unknown Romanian literature? What similarities and differences emerge in the literature of two European spaces in regards to their nomadic and migrant authors? A possible answer could relate to the manner in which migrant authors uncover a source for the imaginary that can support and fuel memory, while revisiting traumatic spaces.

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